5 JANUARY 1889, page 20

Mr. F. Harrison's Lecture On New Year's Day.

W E have heard men, and men of undoubted piety and large experience, maintain that the best instrument for the propagation of a creed is assertion, persistent, un- flinching,......

The Poetry Of The Sea.

'E NGLISH poets are certainly not to be accounted great at all in proportion to their success in dealing with the sea. Some cu. the very greatest have concerned themselves......