... MORE PATRIOTIC POETRY. THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE AT MAGERSFONTEIN. A LAMENT. Hark to the warpipe of Scotland awailing, Sobbing in sadness afar each glen, Where humble and high shed tears unavailing For sons who return not—for brave Highland men. What is your ...

... living pictures the sons of Fife who liave distinguished themselves in church and college, law and literature, painting and poetry, and in the army and navy, and these are not few. There are chapters on Some Storied Stones, Stories of Loch Leven, Inched ...

... you bow much I appreciate the Library. It contains most of the Lssays that I like. and. witu some exceptions, my favourite poetry The feature, however, that most appeals to me is this: thai in every bcok I have ever read be it of fact or fiction, there ...

... literature of Scotland and the habits, customs, and folk-lore of the common people he was well versed. one could appreciate the poetry of our National Bard with greater zest than Mr Maxwell. His heart and soul burned with admiration for the gude auld Scotch ...

... live, yet Henryson, in the opinion competent critics, had earned a right to remembered as one ot the earliest makers Scottish poetry. respect natural simplicity and the faculty of condensation he was the superior of Chaucer, whom was apt although inferior ...

... claims him as one her rncst illustrious alumni, and there, at the age of twenty, he took the much-coveted JNewdigate prize for poetry. His connection with the uy the Isis severed to devote himself a life art, but only renew it wbeu a, man of fifty, with a ...

... PATRIOTIC POETRY. Courage, Britons. What though tie rumbling war clouds frown And seem to threaten overthroAv, Our British lads are not cast down, And yet shall forth to victory go. Chorus —Cheer up, Britons! though storms roar loud, There's a silver ...

... need hardly be rfaii that any songs of the hour must deal with the war and warlike things, and our fiuthor written songs full poetry and pathos. The little brochure is worth far more than the pence charged for it. Goodbye Topi my, he says Some have known ...

... they make their best poetries. The Glasgow bodies to whom these observations were addressed may well have been led to believe that his Excellency was poking fun at them, but to make sure, and to rectify the Ambassador's idea of poetry and whisky, they might ...

... those who are advanced students in Latin the book may profitably perused.—William Blackwood & Sons, London. The New English Poetry Book. Edited by E. E. Speight.—The mere mention of such names Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Scott, Kobert Burns ...

... OUR LONDON LETTER THE IRISH TENANT AGAIN. COLONEL SAUNDERSON THE WARPATH. SCOTTISH PHILOLOGY AND IRISH METAPHOR. POETRY IN PARLIAMENT. BOYCOTTING AND BLACKLEGS. [By Cockier Special Wire.] 109 Fleet Street.* E. 0., Wednesday Evening. We have had an un ...

... than any other racein the world, and even this day appoint Commander-in- Chief their armies the man who can recite the most poetry. The presses were set work, and although book containing more than six thousand cannot but costly, it was hoped that even ...