... Died June 9, 1870 The last two people I heard speak of it were women neither knew the other, or lire author, and both said, by way of criticism, God bleas him Thackeray on ...

... THE HOROSCOPE (FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS COPPfiF.) Before a blear-eyed crone, a withered hag, Who told maids' fortunes, two fair sisters stoo Watching her bony fingers void of blood Drop cards proph ...

... Period Indefinite. Scene Anywhere. Act I. A shady nook A rippling brook Moonlight A garden chair A youthful pair Delight Act II. Troth plighted oft In accents soft. Oh, bliss Vow endles ...

... I sing of Phyllis' beaming eyes The livelong Summer day, But Phyllis from licr Damon's sighs Turns listlessly away. Alexis yonder fires her brain, Whom Chloe holds in thrall, Who treats him ...

... THOU art returned at last, beloved bird I knew thy wondrous instinct had not err'd Thou hast outsped the Prussian hawks, I knew Thy pinions would be true Thou hast not wholly 'scaped ...

... v BANISHED FROM MASSACHUSETTS, l660 Over the threshold of his pleasant home, Set in green clearings, passed the exiled Friend, In simple trust, misdoubting not the end. Dear heart of mine! he said, ...

... Who'd be a North Sea pilot, A hearty, hale, old man Always about on the waves so blue, With the hardest work of all the crew, And a skin the colour o' tan, Yo, Ho And a skin the co ...

... G er level mead and swelling steep, The sunshine flings its golden spray Up from their dells Spring fairies leap, And bending o'er the lilies' sleep Low murmur, as their watch they keep ...

... (On its Reported Insufficiency) (From the Times, April ?j) You- you-- //you have fail'd to understand-- The Fleet of England is her all in all On you wi.l come the curse of all the land, II ...

... Oil heart of my heart, art thou beating In unison sweetly with mine? I waft from my lips this fond greeting, And hope it will cross one from thine. Oh thought of my thoughts, while my glan ...

... Comic J&ougs of Cigljtn gears Hp THE comic songs of one generation are usually rather painful reading for the next. What will our children say when they re member that we were entertained for a whole ...

... I WAS only her playmate, her cousin, She an heiress of Castle and Grange, She had lovers,-- I daresay a dozen, And nobody thought it was strange; On all sides she was worshipped and fêted, L ...