8 NOVEMBER 1902, page 17

Poetry.

THE JEWS OF BUCHAREST. "TAKE heed ! the stairs are worn and damp!" My soft-tongued Southern guardian said, And held more low his twinkling lamp To light my cautious, downward......

Books.

THE EMPEROR WILLIAM'S SPEECHES.* IN a loquacious age, in a world craving to express its ideas and emotions, there still remains among us one silent class. The Sovereigns of......