27 MAY 1916, page 15

Poetry.

Yet hide my tombstone not beneath its shade ; I would that it should be for all to view Engraven—" PASSER-BY, who here hath stayed, Learn from my fate . The Envious Gods forbade......

Books.

THE ROMAN EMPIRE.* SEVERAL methods may be adopted in narrating the events of the past, but the most widely read and popular historians have unquestionably been those who have......