23 SEPTEMBER 1893, page 17

Poetry.

A " BEE " BALL A.D. [Published when spelling-bees were the fashion.] You say that you can spell, Sir, then be good enough to tell, Sir, How you spell me " parallel, " Sir, "......

Books.

THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH." Mn. LANG deserves well of the Republic of Letters on many grounds, but on none more than on his republication of that curious and delightful tract,......