27 FEBRUARY 1869, page 14

American Feeling On The Recent

N EGOTIATIONS. [nom OUR SPECIAG CORRESPONDENT.] Nt //' York, February 12, 1869. ALAS ! the fleeting years glide by. Six laden with changes have passed wearily enough, as our......

English Anapiestic Metres.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I observe that Mr. Palgrave speaks of the metre of his Elegy to Lord Strangford as "anapaestic or dactylic." May I venture to ask whether......