9 JANUARY 1897, page 16

Poetry.

THE MYSTIC. WITHIN a squalid city-court A weaver rents one cellar-room ; The neighbours' children deem it sport To watch the old man at his loom. So half in daring, half in......

Books.

LORD BOWEN.* EVERY one who knew Lord Bowen well must be grateful to Sir Henry Cunningham for writing, and to Lady Bowen for em- powering him to publish, this brilliant sketch of......