11 FEBRUARY 1899, page 17

Poetry.

THE COUNTRY LIFE. MINS be the country life, content With the mild ways that shepherds went, Who, by a stream, cut reeds and blew The country's praises in the dew. To drive my......

Books.

SIR ROBERT PEEL.* [FIRST NOTICE.] AFTER many chances and changes the gigantic mass of the Peel Papers, over a hundred thousand in number, came under the control of Mr. Charles......