19 APRIL 1884, page 15

The Cuckoo.

WAITED and longed-for voice ! which stirs the heart 'With dreams of sunny days and summer joys, First heard when vernal woods are waving green, And blue-belle' mimic skies......

Poetry.

TO A PRIMROSE. Lrrns rustic flower, in thee Emblem true of BEN we see, Artless, modest, (such was he) Full of sweet simplicity, Softly, innocently wild, Nature's unassuming......

After Heine.

AT first I felt in uttermost despair, And said " 0 Lord, this cross I Cannot bear." But I have borne it, and I bear it now, Only, oh only, do not ask me how.......

B 0 0 K S.

MRS. BRAY.* "THERE are three classes," says Coleridge, "into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew are to be divided :-1. That dear old soul. 2. That old woman. 3.......

Courtesy In Birds.

LTO THE EDITOR Or THE Spzorerya.") SIE,--We are all familiar with the delightful gallantry with which a barn-door cock will, on finding food, call his hens, and point out the......