23 MAY 1874, page 16

Books.

GEORGE ELIOT'S POEMS.. IN reading the poems for the first time published, and in reading again the poems republished, in this little volume, the thought which is uppermost in......

Telling The Crickets.

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTITOR:] Sin,---Reading the poetry "Telling the Bees "in your last number reminds me of an incident that occurred in my own family some years ago. A......

The Great Ice Age.

yr() THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?] Ste,—Your correspondent, Mr. Joseph J. Murphy, has always contended that the Ice Age would not be produced by the Northern hemisphere having......

Poetry.

ACCIDENT. WHAT strange, unreasoned impulse takes By devious ways our aimless feet, The unimagined doom to meet ? For still the fatal thunder breaks From skies that promise......

"in The Sweat Of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread."

MY spirit has fed full of idleness ; And through the empty chambers of the mind Goes wandering ill at ease ; nor can it find What may console or stay its loneliness. With......