11 SEPTEMBER 1886, page 17

Books.

" ANDALOUSIE ET PORTUGAL."* FEW people are probably aware that the most brilliant French female writer, next to George Sand, of the last half-century is the Countess Agenor de......

Poetry.

I. ANOTHER age ground down by civil strife ! Rome by her children impious and accurst Down-trampled out of life ! Great Rome, our Rome, our mother, she that erst Rolled back the......