7 NOVEMBER 1891, page 31

Books.

VAUVENARG1YES.* A TOUCHING figure in the eighteenth century is that of the young soldier and philosopher, Luc de Vauvenargues. Neither himself nor his work has ever made much......

Man.

OFT raled by woman, though themselves are kings, Grandly heroic, vain in smaller things. They do great deeds—and great rewards they claim; They live for money, if they die for......

Poetry.

A REMINISCENCE OF BEN LOMOND. FROM Rowardennan up the Ben We climbed with flying pennon, And then we started down again, But not for Rowardennan,- 'Through sun and shade to......

Robert Browning.

I WROTE for men of mind,—not merely those Whose ears want soothing with the sweets of rhyme Or well-turned phrases. For my verse, they say, Runs roughly, as torrents do, that......