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Nuno Dimittis. • Sleep, Lady, For The Hour Of Peace,

That comes to all, has come to thee ; And welcome was the late release That set the weary prisoner free. For thou from sun to sun hest reigned, Thy name is borne on every breath......

Mus I C.

JOSEPH JOACHIM. • Joseph Joachim. By Andreas Moser. Translated by Lilla Durluun. London Philip Wellby. BIOGRAPHIES of living persons are not to be commended as a rule, for in.......

Poetry.

TO OUR MOTHER. 0 PURE and true, 0 faithful heart, Dear mother of our myriad race, The Father claims thee,—His thou art— Far hence, in some serener place, To taste, in that......