New friends, and new ties.”

E. M. W. seeks the authors of the two following quotations, and the poems from which they are taken:—

(1) “What a single word can do!

Making life seem all untrue;

Driving joy and hope away,

Leaving not one cheering ray;

Blighting every flower that grew—

What a single word can do!”

(2) “Not all who seem to fail, have failed indeed;

Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain,