26 JANUARY 1889, page 10

The Poetry Of Melancholy.

TT is perhaps curious, but it is, we think, almost certainly true, at least in England, that the lyrical poetry which gives most pleasure in any age is the poetry which......

The Founding Of A Colony.

S IR WALTER SCOTT'S old laird tells his son to plant trees, because " while we're sleeping they're growing." The British elector may look with somewhat similar feelings upon his......