15 DECEMBER 1888, page 18

Books.

THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.* Tars is a very attractive book. Mr. George Adam Smith has evidently such a mastery of the scholarship of his subject, that it would be a sheer impertinence......

Poetry.

TO AN OPTIMIST. DIM eyes, clear-sighted only for the distance, Fond fancy poring on those hills of blue, Blamest thou me, bent only on resistance To ills of nearer view ? You......