11 JANUARY 1868, page 17

Miss Cross's Poems.*

THESE are not ambitious poems, or rather, we should say,—for ambitiousness in the sense of straining at something above one's power to feel truly, is almost the very antithesis......

.mexico.*—[finst No - Rice.] A Halo Hangs Around The Name...

which even recent events have proved powerless wholly to overshadow. There is a spell inwoven with those names, so strangely unpronounceable by us, those Tenochtitlans,......