29 JANUARY 1876, page 15

Poetry.

[" What the working-man wants is thrift."—Monsas Thmaramrosisr.] THE WORKING-MAN'S REPLY. - WHAT'S the use o' savin', when there's nowt for a man to buy? Cow, and cottage, and......

From Moschus.

WHEN the wind softly sways the azure sea, My languid spirit kindles at the sight, And then the land is no more a delight, Only the mighty main seems sweet to me. But when the......

Books.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER.* Miss ZIMMERN has written a very interesting life of the great German Buddhist and pessimist, without having at her disposal what would seem at first sight......

The London Pooil

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR:1 SIR,—Your reviewer of the "Homes of the London Poor" shuns up admirably much that needs to be said on the subjects of legislative interference......