Take the straight tip, my dears—I glean it

From private talk—they don't half mean it!


THE VOLUNTEERS' FOOTHOLD.—Shoeburyness.

James Russell Lowell.

BORN, FEB. 22, 1819. DIED, AUG. 12, 1891.

"We could not have been prouder of him had he been one of us."—Times.

Bard of two worlds, and friend of both,

As ripe in years as culture, verily

To miss that voice two worlds are loth,