29 NOVEMBER 1884, page 14

Poetry.

IN MEMORIAM: HENRY STORMONT LEIFCRILD. IN what fair Presence hast thou lately been, Genius of Death P Hest thou a moment seen Him of the Resurrection, that thy face Is like to......

Art.

SOME AUTUMN PICTURE GALLERIES. WE do not intend in this notice to attempt any adequate review of the contents of the Galleries which we mention, but only to speak here and there......

Sonnet.

I TO AN INVALID LADY, ON HER HUSBAND'S DEATH.] DEAR lady, sorrow-sainted, whose long pain Rebuked us by its smile, or hushed, like songs The sad, retired nightingale prolongs......

Wagner's "parsifal."

BY A PHILISTINE. [TO C. AL If.] 0, FOR a lilt of melody ! gracious boon, Grudged by our modern critic, merciless, Whose soul, sick of soft harmony's caress, And surfeited by......