In England we do not require to brew this "intoxicative" with "no malt" for ourselves. Every public-house sells it.


SIRENS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS.

[A writer in an evening paper has been discussing the book that might be written on Sirens' Songs.]

What were the songs the Sirens sang

Three thousand years ago or more,

When their silvery voices rose and rang

Over the ocean's wine-dark floor,

And brought a strange perturbing pang

To the heart of the wisest man of yore?