27 JULY 1878, page 15

The Passing Of The Cloud.

THERE came a cloud over yonder hill, When the wind was muttering low, Round and white as the sails, that fill When the winds o'er the ocean go. And the skirts of the cloud were......

Poetry.

MORE IMPRESSIONS OF JAN. [SEE " SPECTATOR," APRIL 297n, 1876, p. 5594 Jan.—Wall, Gearge, my man, why what's up now ? Ees, ees,—you'd need to mop your brow ; 'Tis plaguy hot, but......

Books.

MELSSNER'S ROCOCO PICTURES.* AUGUST Gorruse MEISSNER is a now totally forgotten literary celebrity of the last century—the author of numerous romances and plays—who happened, in......