18 JUNE 1881, page 13

Poetry.

A PLEA. I. 0 YE iu all the world. who love true Song, Be gentle to the Singers who uplift In innocent delight a cradle gift,— So often found to work them fatal wrong. Judge them......

Books.

AMONG THE HILLS.* HAD this story been published anonymously, "within a mea- :surable distance" of George Eliot's Silas Marne'', the world would have taken it, and not without......