12 JANUARY 1907, page 18

Poetry.

TO A MOTHER ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES A THOUSAND songs I might have made Of You, and only You ; A thousand thousand tongues of fire, That trembled down......

Art.

THE OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. IT is not easy to recall a winter Exhibition at the Academy of equal interest to the one now being held. The wealth of private collections......