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  2. THE AUSTRALIAN RACE.

    The value of a publication is not always in proportion to the time and labour spent in composing it. Many instances will occur to the reader where the ratio between the work and the labour expended on it is an ...

    Article : 4,247 words
  3. OUR MILITARY "TURNOUT."

    On the subject of our military turnout, Captain De Burgh writes to us as follows:— As public attention is just now drawn to military matters, both at home and abroad, a few words from one ...

    Article : 1,093 words
  4. A QUINTETTE OF POETS.

    It is a relief, among the myriad poetical vagaries that appear from month to month, to find something that is worth reading. Long poems are not generally popular in these days, when fiction rules; but Mr. ...

    Article : 613 words
  5. TEE DECADENCE OF DISSENT.

    The Saturday Review publishes the following article on the decadence of dissent:— We called attention a year or two ago to the statistics of the leading Nonconformist bodies in England, as illustrated ...

    Article : 1,891 words
  6. Edward the Black Prince. By DOUGLAS B. W. SLADEN. Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh, London. 1887.

    Mr. Douglas B. W. Sladen as a writer is prolific. This seems indeed his chief quality. He is the author of half-a-dozen books of poems, all of which stand out under his name on the title page of the present one, ...

    Article : 555 words
  7. INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY AND TRADE DEPRESSION.

    Sir,—Having in my younger days been trained to the use of arms, and being an adept in the use of the small sword, the clash of steel comes always welcome to my cars, and having for several years endeavoured to cross swords with ...

    Article : 671 words
  8. THE BISHOP OF WELLINGTON' ON EDUCATION.

    Speaking recently on the education question at the Wellington Synod, the Bishop of Wellington is reported to have said that the listless indifference on this matter which until lately existed was now passing away, and a strong ...

    Article : 780 words
  9. Poems, by EDWIN FOSKETT. Regan, Paul, Trench, and Co. London, 1886.

    Here is a book of poetry of 306 pages, and one looks in vain from end to end for some line that is worthy of remembrance, or that appeals to any sense of feeling or of beauty. It would be scarcely readable as prose; it is ...

    Article : 194 words
  10. THE HORSE-CHESTNUT.

    Sir,—During the formation of the numerous parks that are beginning to beautify our city and suburbs, it has often surprised me that the horse-chestnut should not be amongst the trees planted. I have been from England 26 years, and ...

    Article : 283 words
  11. The Poems of Laurence Minot, edited by JOSEPH HALL, M.A. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    This is a most valuable edition of Minot's poems— valuable to the student of early English. The language of time is preserved in the text, and copious notes are appended, which throw light upon the ...

    Article : 86 words
  12. (The Nibelungen Lied, translated from the German by Alfred G. Foster-Barham.) London: MacMillan and Co., 1887.

    This " oldest tradition of modern Europe " that Carlyle over half a century ago declared to be one of the greatest poems left as a legacy to mankind is in this volume put into good and musical verse. The author ...

    Article : 258 words
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