ODD Notices,
309 Stuart, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia,

275
Ostia,
373 Sun, A New Theory of the

299
Silks, The Wild, of India,

444
PROPERTY versus Person — Inequality of Slavery in Hong Kong,

510
Sentences,
188 Sunrise,

573
Pentock, .
283, 337 Swift, Jonathan

579
Port of the Past, A.
373/ Sabah, or British North Borneo,

707
Peppiniello,
404 Samothrace and its Gods,

. 730
Prudence Hart,
527 Scotch Funerals,

753
“Poor White Trash,”

688
Paul, Great,
760 TEA, Midnight

127
Talk and Talkers,

243
QUAKER School, A Famous

56 Turks, The Ottoman, and Mohammedan-
ism,

259
ROBIN,

36, 171, 207, 270, 742 Tiflis, The Literature of .
Robsart, Amye
67 Tahiti, The Last King of

670
Russia and the Revolution,

106
Rossetti's Poems,

436 WHALE Fishery of the Basque Provinces
Rossetti, D. G.

504
of Spain,

52
SOVEREIGNTY, The Burden of
125 YELLOWSTONE Geysers, The.

31
State Trials, The

195 | Yellow Sea, the, Across.

572

486

POETRY.

.

.

.

Bugle Notes of Spring, The
Bluebells,
Buttercups,

450 | Moon, The, and I, .

706
706
770 “No Longer Mourn for me,".

194
770 Not to be Tuneless in Old Age,'

ge," 258
258 Our Latter Days,

642
258
642 Reason Why, The .

322
Rain at Midnight,

450
2 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

706
130 Sonnet's Voice, The

2
322 Sunset with Clouds,

66
386
“Sweet Bird, whose Carol on the Winter
Thorn,"

66
194 Sleeper, The

130
Sunrise,

· 573
514 Sunshine,

... 578
Sleepy Hollow,
Summer, ·

770
66
Tract for the Time, A

2
706 " They do but Grope' in Learning's
Pedant Round,”

66
194 Three Tuscan “Rispetti,

;,',

514
194 To-day,
386 Tempora Mutantur,

706
575 Year of Deaths, The, April 1831-2, 322

Dæmon, The .

404
527

Lady Jane,

143, 223, 495, 783 Peppiniello,
Little Pilgrim, A:
in the Unseen,

472 Prudence Hart,
Ladies Lindores, The

556, 609, 795
Pentock,

283, 337 Robin,

36, 171, 207, 270, 742

Fifth Series,
Volume XXXVIII.

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No. 1972.- April 8, 1882.

s From Beginning,

Vol. OLIII.

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CONTENTS.

1. SIR CHARLES LYELL,

Quarterly Review, .

II. THE FRERES. By Mrs. Alexander, author of

“The Wooing O't.” Part XXXI.,

Temple Bar,

III. THE YELLOWSTONE GEYSERS,

Nineteenth Century,

IV. ROBIN. By Mrs. Parr, author of “Adam

and Eve.'

Part V.,

Temple Bar,

V. JANE AUSTEN,

Temple Bar, .

VI. ON THE WHALE FISHERY OF THE BASQUE

PROVINCES OF SPAIN, .

Nature, .

VII. A FAMOUS QUAKER SCHOOL,

All The Year Round,

VIII. AMERICAN ANTS,

Nature, .

IX. DESTRUCTION OF EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS, Blackwood's Magazine,

36

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A TRACT FOR THE TIME.

Be lively with the cricket, be merry with the “ It is proposed to establish a children's branch of grig, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals." And never quote from Bacon in the presence - Weekly Paper.

of a pig! An elderly lady had had her boots blackt,

Don't contradict the moocow, nor argue with And gave to the blacker a nice little tract: The following gives a résumé exact,

Be always kind to animals wherever you may

be ! Of what may be found in this excellent tract:

Punch, Speak gently to the herring, and kindly to the

calf, Be blithesome with the bunny, at barnacles

don't laugh! Give nuts unto the monkey, and buns unto the bear,

CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Ne'er hint at currant jelly if you chance to meet a hare!

Not in the fairy freshness of the spring, Don't tantalize the tortoise, nor sacrifice the Nor when bright summer smiles upon the land, stoat,

Not when rich autumn with a lavish hand Don't persecute the parrot, nor grumble at the Wreathes earth with golden corn and purple goat;

ling : But give the stranded jelly-fish a shove into But then, when passage-birds have taken wing the sea —

For sunnier climes; when the sere leaves lie Be always kind to animals wherever you may And moaning through bare branches overhead,

dead, The mournful wind their requiem seems to

sing Be lenient with lobsters, and ever kind to Yes, then, sweet flowers, when all around is crabs,

drear, And be not disrespectful to cuttle-fish or dabs; Ye come, the heart to gladden with your Chase not the cochin-china, chaff not the ox

smile, obese,

A gleam of brightness ere the winter near, And babble not of feather-beds in company Chasing our sadness with your magic wile.

with geese! Be tender with the tadpole and let the limpit

Happy their lot, like you, who soothe and

cheer, thrive,

And life's November brighten and beguile ! Be merciful to mussels, don't skin your eels

Chambers' Journal. alive; When talking to a turtle don't mention cali.

pee Be always kind to animals wherever you may

be !

be!

the ram,

Oh, make not game of sparrows, nor faces at

THE SONNET'S VOICE.

A METRICAL LESSON BY THE SEASHORE, And ne'er allude to mint sauce when calling

on a lanıb! Don't beard the thoughtful oyster, don't dare Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach

Fall back in foam beneath the star-shine the cod to crimp,

clear, And worry not the winkle, or scarify the

The while my rhymes are murmuring in your shrimp. Tread lightly on the turning worm, don't bruise

restless lore like that the billows teach ; the butterfly,

For on these sonnet-waves my soul would Don't ridicule the wry-neck, nor sneer

reach salmon-fry;

From its own depths, and rest within you, Oh, ne'er delight to make dogs fight, nor ban

dear, tams disagree Be always kind to animals wherever you may Great nature strives to find a human speech.

As, through the billowy voices yearning here, be !

ear

at

with rats ;

Be patient with black-beetles, be courteous to A sonnet is a wave of melody: cats,

From heaving waters of the impassioned And be not harsh with haddocks, nor rigorous soul

A billow of tidal music one and whole Give welcome unto wopses, and comfort to the Flows in the "octave ; " then returning free, bee,

Its ebbing surges in the “sestet" roll And be not hard upon the snail – let blue- Back to the deeps of life's tumultuous sea. bottles go free.

THEODORE WATTS,