7 JUNE 1879, page 17

Poetry.

WALL-FLOWERS. WHERE the Wall-flowers grow, Many come and go; Rich and poor men pass, Lover, too, and lass ; Children at their play, Heads careworn and gray. Nought of all that......

Art.

• Caina was an abyss in Hell, to which Cain had been consigned. WE have had frequent occasion to remark on the unsatisfactory manner of the management of the Royal Academy, and......

Paolo And Francesca.

[FROM DANTE'S "INFERNO.") AFTER that I had heard my Teacher name The Ladies and the Knights of days gone by, 'Wildered I stood,—so pity o'er me came. " Fain," I began, " oh,......

Canning's Epigram On Mr. Whitbread.

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, In your notice of the late Mr. Samuel Charles Whitbread, in last Saturday's Spectator, you refer to Mr. Canning's well- known lines.......