12 MAY 1883, page 14

And Oozy Beaches Glistening Wet, Lo, Here, Methinks,...

moons, Thy Merman lingers yet. Outstretched above the gleaming waves, He watches through the summer night, Or stables in the sounding caves His wild sea-horses white. They foam......

Poetry.

SONNET. Wan; Philomel her evening psalm hath ceased, Whilst raptured Echo sinks to sleep again, And men return to consciousness of pain,— On glow-worms doth she solitary feast.*......

Art.

MANY visitors to this Gallery will pause before Mr. Hale's' "Venus and Psyche," and wonder at the artist's temerity in painting in so frankly unconventional a manner a subject......