28 JANUARY 1905, page 5

The Minor Poet Of To-day Is More Happily Fated Than

his early Victorian cousin. His verses are, as a rule, admirably printed and prettily bound, while his unfortunate relative's were presented in the guise of a Sunday-school book......

It Is A Troubled Record That Of The Last Fifty

years of South American history. Yet it should have been a halcyon period. The whole of the continent had thrown over simultaneously the rule of Spain, and there were not......