4 AUGUST 1866, page 14

Books.

SIGNBOARDS.v IT is not odd that signs should be odd. The oddity is that they should not be odder. The first object of a sign, in the present day the sole object, is to attract......

A Portrait.

THERE he goes, as you say, like a madman— His clothes all awry, And a fine lofty scorn for things human In forehead and eye. Poor man, that scarce owns an acquaintance— If he......

Mountain Sadness.

OFTTIMES the mighty mountains at their hearts Are sick and woeful in their majesty ; Then is each one forlorn as Niobe, And from all sight and colloquy departs. Then in......

Hyde Park And The Police.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Lincoln's Inn, July 30, 1866. Sin,—The Spectator seems to assume that the outrages in Ilyde Park on Monday, the 23rd of July, took place only......