18 AUGUST 1894, page 18

Poetry.

OUT IN THE DARK. On, up the brae, and up and up, beyont the fairy thorn, It's there they hae my baby laid, that died when he was born. Afore the priest could christen him to......

Books.

THE NEW BULGARIA.* WHATEVER may be the accuracy of Mr. Dicey's estimate of the present importance of Bulgaria in the scheme of European nations, or of its destiny as a future......

Lord Salisbury's Ideal Bridegroom.

[AN IIIPROMPTIT.1 SAID the Toad, while pacing slowly Through the wood from east to west, Bent on finding in the thicket Her whose physique matched him best,— $' Is her skin more......