3 OCTOBER 1896, Page 16

POETRY.

THE BOOK OF LIFE.

THE Book of Life contains no title-page, No argument, no key is found therein That may the scholar's thirst to know assuage And with which he some clue to life can win.

Through each crabbed chapter he his way must wend`, Trusting to find the moral at the end.

ELLA FULLER MAITLAND.,