25 NOVEMBER 1876, page 16

Poetry.

A SONG OF THE PERIOD. DON'T tell me of the pauper brood, Who daily cry for a crust of food; The badly-clothed or the evil-shoed, Or the bare, blue toes of the crossing-sweeper!......

Wind -pressure And Atmospheric Pr Fissure.

[TO TER EDITOR OF TUN EPROTATOR.1 SIR,—In your last week's number you suggest that there may have been some error in the recorded pressure resulting from the lath storm in......

B Oo Ks.

LORD SHELBURNE.* [FIRST NOTICE.] IN our notice of the first volume of this work eighteen months' ago (May 15th, 1875) we had to guard ourselves against prema- ture conclusions.......