.

465

643
691

.

210

Numidian Pompeii,

59 | St. Petersburg Society, Reminiscences of 208
Sister,

371
OVER-ADMINISTERED Nation, An. 108 Species, The Extermination of

447
Olaf's, St., Day in the Faroes,

442 Sophia Dorothea, The Story of
Star, The New, in Auriga,

476
POMPEII, The Numidian

59 Sahara, The Great, A Ride in

505, 565
Punch's Understudy,

126 Salisbury, The Marquis of: a Study in
Parish,:Our, in Ireland,
182 Character,

539
Pantellaria, The Submarine Eruption at 320 Songs, The Popular, of France,
Parson, A Fourteenth-Century

355 Simpson Willoughby's Groom,
Poseuse, A, of the Eighteenth Century, 488 Spanish Novelette, A

698
Parliamentary Days, in Young
569 Sherbrooke, Lord.

700
“Pessimist " Outlook, A

697
Phil,

737 TOLSTOI, Count, A Visit to
Porteous Riot, The

793 Tuscan Sculpture, The, of the Renais-

sance,
QUEEN's Messenger, The

26 Tollemache, Lord, and his Anecdotes, : 632

Town Life under the Restoration,
ROSEMARY for Remembrance,
118 Taboo, A Critical .

719
Roses, Old
Rome, Ancient, and Modern London,
451 ULSTER and Home Rule,

195
Rimini, Historical
600 Ulsterman, The, in America,

575
Restoration, the, Town Life under
Rouergue, the, Wayfaring in

759 Voles, The Plague of, in Scotland, 250
Rural Russia, “ Death Week" in 766 Verdict, The, of England,

749
Russians, The, at Home,

808
Row'tilly Girl, The

817 YARROW, The, . of Wordsworth and

Scott, .
SCIENCE, Recent
3 York, The Last Duke of

252
Statesmen of Europe. Spain,

294
Spain, Statesmen of

294 Zuider Zee, the, The Draining of . 823
Steppe, the, A Concord of

300

683

382

683

.

156

POETRY.
ASPIRATION,

514 Knot of Hair, A
Bachelor's Ballade, A

66 London Rose, A
“ Bonjour, Pierrot,”

770 London Landscape, A

Last Desire, The
Cupid's Visit, .

130
Charlie's Men,

322 “Mother, I cannot mind my wheel,"

Mother's Garden, A
Evening,

66
Evening Primrose, The : :: 386, 578 Old, The, and the New,
Flattery, :

2 Pan in the Orchard,
Friend, My

2 Paris Sparrows,
• Foresters, The : Robin Hood and
Maid Marian,'

130 Rusticus Expectat, :
From Edgehill to Compton Wynyates, 514
Folk-Mote, The, by the River,

514

“Solvitur Acris Hyems,"

Stormy Petrel, Lines on a
Gates of the Sea, By the

258 Shelley's Centenary,
Gold Crest, To the, Building in my Gar-' Sadness of Summer, The
den,

450
Golden Hour, An

450 “ Thou burden of all songs the earth
Greek Waters, In

hath sung,'

Time and Love,
Haddon Hall Garden Terrace,

258 Three Stages of Life,
Home-Sickness,

0 642 Tintagel, :
Heart-Storms,

770

Waiting, :
Inadequacy,

386 Winter Night's Dream,
• If I were Fair,"

514, Watching the Doves,

Wilde, Oscar .

14

382

TALES.
AUNT ANNE, 81, 144, 199, 267, 330, 399, Mathematical Master's Love-Story, The
457, 528, 586, 656, 716

Old Roses,
Five Voices from an Old Music-Book,

421, 495 Phil,
Great Water-Cress Tragedy, The . 621 Rosemary for Remembrance,

Row'tilly Girl, The
Like Father, Like Son,

678
Little Napoleon of Caribou, The :

785 Sister,

Simpson Willoughby's Groom, :

737

118
817

.

371
691

Fifth Serlos,
Volamo LXXIX.

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CONTENTS.

1. RECENT SCIENCE,

Nineteenth Century,

II. THE MATHEMATICAL MASTER'S LOVE-

STORY: A RECORD,

Blackwood's Magasine, .

III. THE QUEEN'S MESSENGER,

Quarterly Review, .

IV. AMONG THE CHIEFS OF BECHUANALAND, Fortnightly Review,

V. MASHONALAND AND ITS INHABITANTS, New Review,

VI. MADAME DU CHATELET,

Temple Bar,

VII. FLORENCE IN SPRING, .

All The Year Round,

VIII. THE NUMIDIAN POMPEII,

Spectator,

LX. OF OLD LICENSES,

Chambers' Journal,

X. AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS, .

Saturday Review, .

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WAITING.

Pretty robin, there's a maiden tall, and fair,

and rather stately, I am waiting alone while shadows grow, ind the light in the west departeth slow,

With a voice as soft as yours is, dwelling Waiting, while breezes come and go,

in that very cot, In the sunset glow.

And her tresses catch the sunbeams, though

she speaks and moves sedately, A rosebud gleams through the failing light, And her eyes are just the color of a blue Just the ghost of a rosebud, pure and white, forget-me-not. In its heart a glistening dewdrop bright Will he come to-night?

Whisper, robin - can you tell me is she wan

d'ring by the river, “I will come to you when the sun gleams red Where the catkins clothe the willows and O'er the golden.sea in the west,” he said;

the water-cresses grow? Alas I the sun has already fled,

Tell me robin, pretty robin, and I'll be your And the day is dead.

For her father does not love me, and so, The sea gleams grey 'neath the twilight sky, mind you, whisper low. The seagulls homeward wheeling fly

Chambers' Journal.

M. Rock. To their nests on the cliff-side, bare and high,

And still wait I.

debtor ever,

He is tarrying yet upon his way,
Tarrying he, while I wait and pray

PAN IN THE ORCHARD.
At the garden gate, 'neath the rose's spray,
Where the moonbeams play.

He carved a flute of elder green,

And notched it well and true, Ah! how the perfume of that rose

Then pursed his lips and puffed his cheeks, Amid the silence heavy grows !

And merrily he blew.
The wand'ring night-wind scarcely blows
In the dread repose.

For it was springtime holiday,

A sun-tanned boy was he,
“I will come,” he said. Ah! Love, come With russet freckles on his face
now,

And a patch' upon his knee.
For Time flies fast, I know not how.
I wait beneath the rose's bough,

The apple boughs above him flung
But where art thou?

Their tangled sprays on high,
Chambers' Journal.
LYDIA M. Wood. With one dark, bristly blue-jay nest

Rough-sketched against the sky.
He knew the secrets of the grass,

The burden of the hour,
FLATTERY.

He saw the fierce, bluff bumblebee

Touse many a clover flower. Oh, you pretty. robin, keeping watch beside a lowly dwelling,

Orphaned and poor as poor could be, Where the happy sunshine rushes o'er the

The years before him lay gorse bloom bright and gay,

Dark billows of an unknown sea, Where the blackbirds and the thrushes are

No lighthouse on the way. their loud love-stories telling Do you know, I fancy, robin, you as sweetly And yet, and yet his elder fute sing as they

Could bring him comfort true; Do you see that verdant meadow where the He pursed his lips and puffed his checks buttercups are growing,

And blew, and blew, and blew! Where the golden-hearted daisies twinkle

Maurice Thompson's “ Poems." 'mid the tender grass? Do you mark the lights and shadows that the

fleecy clouds are throwing, As across the sky of azure they fantastically pass?

MY SRIEND. Just above it there's a cottage, sheltered by My friend is one whom I have fancied cold the budding beeches,

In early days of converse, but whose hold Where the cherry bloom is scattered on the Upon my heartstrings grew to links of gold.

serried crocus lines By the playful south wind's antics, where the Deep like the sea, with riches still unguessed glistening ivy reaches

I cling to what is seen and dream the rest, To the red-tiled roof and chimneys where Knowing that what appears is not the best. the green wisteria twines.

Academy.

ARTHUR L. SALMON.