30 SEPTEMBER 1876, page 20

Sir John Davies.*

A minor Italian poet, one Pontanns, having asked in a Latin , distich what it was that grew bigger the more you took from it, got for his answer, " Pontano demas carmina, major......

A French View Of Cuba And The Insurrec'fion,

THE appearance of a book on Cuba is welcome and opportune. The echoes that reach us of the events which are passing in "the Queen of the Ahtilles" are very faint and few. Save......