31 DECEMBER 1887, page 15

Poetry.

SOMEWHERE. I G1VB this hour to sorrow : nay, refrain, Bethink thee skies e'en now are somewhere bright For others, the green leaves are dancing light, And lovers meet where......

Books.

LORD JUSTICE BOWEN'S " VIRGIL." Loan Joules BowsN lays it down as axiomatic that any translation of Virgil to be good, must be in itself an English poem, and next that that poem......

A Name For New South Wales.

[To THE EDITOR or THE EPICTATOR.1 Sia,—If New South Wales must have a new name—and it is not difficult to understand the desire for one—is there any good reason why she should......