25 JULY 1891, page 16

The Advance Of Socialism.

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 Sin,—For several days past, my proceeding to the strawberry.. beds in my garden has been most noisily and vigorously denounced by a grand......

To Hope, Eighteen Months Old.

DARLING, with those big eyes of blue That stare me gravely through and through In babyhood's undaunted wise, Whence came their colour and their size ? Did Nature, kind to......

Poetry.

SHADOWS. SHADOWS of the morning, on the way ! Shadows of a morning, fresh and gay! Shadows of the morning, like a maiden's tears adorning For her bridal,—oh ! how soon ye pass......

Art.

BOOKBINDINGS AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. THERE once was a pure palmographer who regarded with con- tempt and loathing any dealings with the "merely literary" side of a......