... POMP* SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE. NO. xx. [In anlnouncing our recent Feast of the Poets we promised to give a notice of the poems mid songs pnf ROnaaT NICO.LL and that promise we had intended - ;b have performed this week;* certain circurmstances have, however, so wocupied our time as to prevent us futibliing our intentions. The promised notice shall appea slPortly. In the meantime we give the ...

... ebt staot of tbe oetto PART II. In commencing Part II. of our Feast with th oI following stirring poem, we must premise that we think the author is rather hard upon poor Old Eng. land. Certainly England's past career is open to heavy charges. Gigantic crimes, of which other nations anti her own long-suffering working classes have been the victims, have yet to be atoned for. That atonement, ...

... BY ERNEST JONES, Author of `My Lif,, etc. [Our Poet's: thick-coming fancies rather myntify, ansl therefore spoil the opening portion cf the follow ing poem. Of the merits of the concluding portion, commencing':- Then man shall cease for aye to 'bend unto each sceptred clod, &c. there can be no question; the verdict must be- excellcnt.] Where England looks o'er channelled waves, and round ...