And, tearing the moonlight in handfuls through,

A giant arm in the cloudland sombre

Scatters the light on a world of slumber,

Through snowy craters, from gulfs of blue.


BOGEY IN BOND STREET.

(A Legend of the Grosvenor Gallery.)

The Spirit of Art glided through the streets of Modern London, seeking a resting-place. She entered the Diploma Gallery of the Royal Academy, but hurried away, affrighted at some of the terrible examples of the illustrious Forty.