7 APRIL 1877, page 16

An April Picture.

A BLACK-WALLED barn, with roof of sombre red ; Within, a dusty, sunlit granary-floor ; On either side a widely-opened door Let in broad sunlight on the thresher's head, And......

Poetry.

THE primrose-head is bowed with tears, The wood is rippling through with rain, Though now the heaven once more appears, And beams the bounteous sun again. From every blade and......

Books.

THE LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN.• IT is a great pleasure to meet with a biography so modest, so compact, and in every way so worthy of praise as this. The chief duty Mr. Pole......