2 JULY 1881, page 23

" We Have Sung For Long In The Low-walled Garden,

We have flitted among the ivy-leaves ; And oh! we know that some hearts will pardon The tiny sins of such tuneful thieves. We have flown and hopped, to settle and flutter Near......

Gleanings. By Wilfrid B. Woollam. (e. M. Jones,...

Woollam should not "glean." Gleaned corn is poor stuff, at the best. Let him sow and reap, if it may be. This will take more time, but the result will be more satisfactory. We......

—the Skies And Weather Forecasts Of Aratus. Translated,...

by E. Poste, M.A. (Macmillan.)—The two things, perhaps, that most readers know about Aratus, are that Cicero translated and that Virgil imitated him. Mr. Poste, who employs a......

—the Conquest, And Other Poems. By Thomas Carlos...

and Co.)—We cannot quite make out whether "The Conquest" is by Mr. Wilkinson or by his father, to whose memory it is dedicated. Whoever the author, the poem may be easily......

Some Of The Magazines.

Ma. FROUDE, in the Nineteenth Century, swells the " Remin- iscences," by an account of Carlyle's early days, enriched with letters from his mother and his friends, especially......

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..--anne Evans : Poems And Music. With Memorial Preface. By

Anne Thackeray Ritchie. (C. Began Paul.)—It will not be surpris- ing if Mrs. Ritchie's preface finds more readers than the poems of her friend. Yet these have much merit, the......

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