A Northern Light.
(Dr. John Rae, the venerable and valiant Arctic Explorer, is dead.)
The Arctic Circle and far Hudson's Bay
Bear witness to the glories of John Rae.
The darkened world, with deep regret, will own
Another Rae of Light and Leading gone!
Mrs. R. thinks she will not go abroad for a holiday tour. "You see, my dear," she says, "I don't mind owning that I am not well up in French and German, and I should not like to have always to be travelling about with an Interrupter."
