There breaks out a ripple of glee,
And the voice of the violoncello,
Althea, is pleading for me!
The music is beating and surging
With joy no adagio can drown,
In ecstasy all things are merging—
Because you have come back to town!
The Corean Difficulty.—"Japan declines to withdraw."—(Telegram, Thursday, July 12).—"Ah," observed Miss Quoter, who is ever ready, "that reminds me of Byron's line in Mazeppa, quite applicable to the present situation—
'Again he urges on his mild Corea.'"