28 DECEMBER 1889, page 15

The Spanish Armada And The English Catholics.

A" SPANISH fleet affront our English shores ! It must not be ; it shall not ! Sink or swim Our cause, our lamp of hope burn bright or dim, Long as o'er English cliff the osprey......

Poetry.

THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWNING. UPON St. Michael's Isle They laid him for awhile That he might feel the Ocean's full embrace, And wedded be To that wide sea— The subject and the......

Books.

THE LIFE OF MARY SHELLEY.* TILEEE years ago, Professor Dowden, at the request of Sir Percy and Lady Shelley, published what may be called an official Life of the poet. He had......