30 DECEMBER 1893, page 17

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NEW MEXICO.* ON the southern border of the United States there exists a territory which, though nominally a part of the great Northern Republic, belongs to it only in name. Long......

Poetry.'

FIVE SONNETS. I.—THE RIVALS. MAN'S good and evil angels came to dwell As housemates, at his board and hearth alway ; One, secret as the night, one, frank as day, Both lovely,......

The Hawarden Horace.

,9. Will. When in the golden days of yore Thy favour I enjoyed (Though purely Scottish to the core), My bliss was unalloyed : Proud of a love that jealous fate . Methought could......