2 MARCH 1912, page 17

Poetry.

CATKINS. Or many a flower of famous note The Summer weaves her pall ; I give my love to one remote And less inclined to fall : The catkin in his yellow coat And grey fur over......

Music.

STRAUSS AS A NATIONAL TYPE. Ma. W. H. Hamow's interesting paper on "Music and Drama" in the Quarterly Review clearly shows that we must revise our estimate of the age of opera......