THE ORACLE. ‘Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona        mountain    When winds were in the oakenshaws, and all the cauldrons            tolled,And mute’s the midland…

TO ANY HOUSEHOLDER.     Some general instinct has remained with men, so that the consensus of nations has been in favour of light colours—light tones, rather,…

OPEN SESAME.     Interested strangers who tried to talk to Mr. Trembath about the West Country were apt to be disappointed because, although he had many…

THE MARKET GIRL. (Country Song.) Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey-    kerb,A-trying to sell her honey and apples, and bunches…

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISLANDS.     Suppose that in some convulsion of the planets there fell upon this earth from Mars, a creature of a shape totally…