This mess of cracked ice, stones and bread,

Of sweetness savours not a bit,

And yet, my friends, I’m satisfied,

For lo! I—I—invented it!

Frederic Ridgely Torrence.

THE BRITISH VISITOR

ARRIV’D, at last, Niagara to scan,

He walks erect and feels himself a man;

Surveys the cataract with a “critic’s eye,”