2 JUNE 1883, page 16

Poetry.

COMPTON PLACE. FAIR beeches, though your brother trees In forests stand so proud, Yet here the fierce winds from the seas So oft your heads have bowed, That still, when softer......

Books.

DE BROGME'S FREDERICK THE GREAT AND MARIA THERESA.* THE Due de Broglie says early in the first of these volumes, and with a characteristically elegant sigh, that " we have not,......