6 AUGUST 1887, page 17

Poetry.

And if for care the wild birds cannot sing, Or, serious grown, the lambs cease gambolling, Needs must be life and laughter in the hills ; Fresh verdure now the new-mown valley......

Books.

ROGERS'S TABLE-TALK.* This is a handsome reprint, apparently without revision, of the volume which called down the wrath of Mr. Hayward in the Edinburgh Review. His criticism......