"always Verify Your Quotations." [to The Editor Of The...
his notice of "The Lost Land" in the Spectator for February 23rd your reviewer says : "One is reminded of Ossian's tragic summary of the Gaelic character: They went forth to the......
Books.
STRAY PAPERS BY THACKERAY.* THE editor of these "stray papers" claims for them no con- siderable literary value. They consist of reviews, short stories, verses, and sketches not......
Poetry.
A PLIGHTING NIGHT. ON a fighting night when the shore-winds blow And the birds are hurrying fast and low, When the curlews wail on the white waves' crest When the peewits fly......
A Human Sun-dial. [to The Editor Of The "spectator.']
Sin,—When I was living in Essex thirty or forty years ago, the labourers, few of whom had watches, used to make of themselves the gnomon of a sun-dial in the following primi-......
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