5 MAY 1900, page 15

Poetry.

VOCATION. ry I might choose my simple lot Far from the town and quite forgot, All in a slIeltered nook and warm, 'Tis I would have a violet farm. No daffodils should me entice,......

Art.

THE ACADEMY.—I. Two pictures stand out from the mass in the present Exhibi- tion, and by the largeness of their conception and complete- ness of their carrying out exercise a......

Col. Baden-powell : The Story Of A Hero.

ONE word of this weary war All our hearts are waiting for, Of the hero, England bore, Kind and gay : The soul so calm whate'er befalls it; For no peril yet appals it. And his......