... POETRY AND PAL2EOGRAPHY. WE spoke in a recent number of certain excavations carried on at Nennig, near Treves, at the instance of the Prussian Governisent, which have yielded some rather unexpected results. Besides really valu able objects of archeology ...

... delirious tongue which requires a great deal of parsing and construing are not poetry at all. They are a trouble to read and a puzzle to understand. They are neither poetry nor prose; they are nothing. Unfortunately the trick of writing nothing in pol ...

... it that he was a great poet. The essence of poetry was not in its outside, not in its form, not in its colour, not in its musiT These were accessories, the clothing which ought to go with poetry, and poetry was defective so far as it had them not; yet ...

... right to employment till these men had it. This made me slink sway out amongst them, till hunger, who does not care much for poetry, made Die as fierce in the struggle as the others. To be out of work with poetic susceptibility means more suffering, useless ...

... THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY ON LIFE. We have received several letters from correspondents who reply to a somewhat pessimistic effusion signed J. H., which we published some days ago on the above subject. We have only roomt for two extracts. ,W. S. writes ...

... more smoothly than they would otherwise do. No man can truly love poetry and the beautiful in the material and moral worlds without being the better for it. Life is worth living, and poetry does more to brighten and ennoble it than most persons suppose. ...

... towards go cd taste might be spoken of as poetry viewed in its results, and poetry viewed in its processes; the poem given to the world, and the poet as an artist in his studio. By study of the specific rules of poetry as a fine art, and of its historical ...

... DEMOCRACY, LAUGHTER, AND POETRY. DEMOCRACY assuredly has much to answer for, and will have more. So exclaims a writer in to-day's Spectator on The Decay of Laughter. Poor democracy! It has much to answer for, indeed, on the principle in favour with ...

... KIPLINGMANIA, OR THE NEW POETRY. - -- . . -- - ti- I f The Japan Herald's Own Poet Laureate, following in the path of his contemporary bards, has favoured the columlnf s of his paper with some specimen verses in thle new style. After deciigteedtrsgna ...

... THE POE TRY OF A MODERN PROPHET. A DiP INTO THIE WORKIS OF OLIPII.ANT's HARRIS. THE following account of the poetry of Thomas Lake Harris, which a correspondent sends, will doubtless prove interesting to readers of Laurence Oliphant's Life, and to all ...

... UISIIiOP ALEXANDER ON THE SYMPATHY AND POETRY OF SCIENCE. The Bishop) of Derry and Raphoe preached yesterday morning to a very arg-e congregation at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, from Deuteronomy xxxiii. 39, I wound, I heal. All true hymns (he said), ...

... England ; and in England it a\ as the memory of Greek poetry, coupled with the poetry-and the practice-of Lord BYRON, that gave wings to the Greek idea. In Italy, the debt which nationalism owes to poetry is greater and more certain. It is ordinarily said ...