The chimney fire is blazing high,
And, richly stored, the festive board
Awaits the merry company.
Remove the fragments of the feast !
The steaming coffee, waiter, bring
Now tell the tale, the chorus sing,
And let the laughter loudly ring ;
Here's to our host, drink down the toast,
Then up ! for time is on the wing.
Hilloo, hilloo, hilloo, hilloo !
The moon is sinking out of sight,
Across the sky dark clouds take flight,
And dimly looms the mountain height;
Tie on the shoes, no time to lose,
We must be home again to-night.

Shake off, shake off the clinging snow;
Unloose shoe, the sash untie,
Fling tuque and mittens lightly by ;

OPE your

doors and take me in, Spirit of the wood, Wash me clean of dust and din,

Clothe me in your mood.

The wind of death that silently
Enshroudeth friend and enemy.
There was a time my soul was thrilled

By keen ambition's whip and spur ;
My master forced me where he willed,
And with his power my life was filled,

But now the old time pulses stir How faintly in the wind of death, That bloweth lightly as a breath ! And once, but once at Love's dear feet,

I yielded strength, and life, and heart ; His look turned bitter into sweet, His smile made all the world complete ;

The wind blows loves like leaves apart

Take me from the noisy light

To the sunless peace,
Where at mid day standeth Night

Signing Toil's release.
All your dusky twilight stores

To my senses give ;
Take me in and lock the doors,

Show me how to live.

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Lift your leafy roof for me,

Part your yielding walls : Let me wander lingeringly

Through your scented balls.

It gives the dead another winding sheet,
It buries all the roofs until the smoke
Seems like a soul that from its clay has

broke. It broods moon-like upon the Autumn

Build high your white and dazzling pal

aces, Strengthen your bridges, fortify your

towers,

Storm with a loud and a portentous lip. And April with a fragmentary breeze, And half a score of gentle golden hours, Will leave no trace of your stern

workmanship.

ADAMS, Sarah Fuller (Flower), b. Harlow, 1805; d. 1818. Daughter of Benjamin Flower, journalist and politician. In 1834 she married William Bridges Adams. Was connected with the religious society at Finsbury, under the care of William Johnson Fox, “Vivia Perpetua,” her dramatic poem, was published in 1841.

ADDLESHAW, Percy, barrister, b. Bowden, Cheshire, 186-. Was graduated at Christchurch, Oxford. Was called to the bar, 1893. Has written articles, poems, and reviews for various publications, and under the pseudonym of " · Percy Hemingway” published “Out of Egypt," à volume of short stories, 1894, and * The Happy Wanderer and other Poems,”' 1895.

AÏDÉ, Hamilton, novelist and song-writer, b. Paris, 1829. Educated at the University of Bonn. Has written a number of novels, and is well known as the author of many favorite songs, set to music by Blumenthal and others. His * Eleonore, and other Poems" appeared in 18.56 ; “The Romance of the Scarlet Leaf, and other Poems,” 1865 ; “Songs without Music,'' 1882.

AIRD, Thomas, journalist, b. Bowden, 1802 ; d., Castle Bank, Dumfries, 1876. Educated at Edinburgh University. Editor of the

Dumfries Herald” and later of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal.” In 1852 brought out the works of D. M. Moir, with a memoir, and in 1856 a collective edition of his own poems. Contributor to “ Blackwood's."

ALEXANDER, Cecil Frances (Humphries), b. Strabane, Ireland, 182-. Daughter of Major Humphries. Married Rev. William Alexander, afterwards Bishop of Derry, in 1850. Her publications, consisting of stories and poems for children, were issued anonymously. Edited the

Sunday Book of Poetry,” of the “Golden Treasury " Series.

ALFORD, Henry, divine, b. London, 1810; d. Canterbury, 1871. Educated at Trinity College, where he took a fellowship in 1834. From 1853 to 1857 preached in the Quebec Street Chapel. In 1857 succeeded to the deanery of Canterbury. First editor of the “Contemporary Review," and author of a standard critical edition of the Greek Testament. The fourth edition of his poems appeared in 1865.

ALLINGHAM, William, editor and bal. ladist, b. Ballyshannon, 1824; d. Whitby, 1889. Contributed to the Athenæum” and other periodicals, and edited “Fraser." In 1850 his first volume, "Poems,'' appeared, and in 1855 an enlarged edition of Day and Night Songs," illustrated by Rossetti, Millais, and A. Hughes. Author of "Songs, Poems and Ballads,'' 1877; "Evil May-Day," 1883; “ Ashby Manor," a drama, 1883 ; and “ Blackberries," 1881.

ANDERSON, Alexander, railway laborer, b. Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, 1815. Adopted the pseudonym of “Surfaceman,” and has published “Songs of Labor,'' .1873; Two Angels and other Poems : with Introductory Sketch by George Gilfillan,”' 1875 ; " Songs of the Rail," 1877, 1881 ; Ballads and Sonnets,” 1879.

ARMSTRONG, G. F.-See G. F. SavageArmstrong.

ARNOLD, Sir Edwin, editor and Sanscrit scholar, b. Sussex, 1832. Educated at King's College, London, and University College, Oxford. Was made Principal of the Government Sanscrit College at Poona and Fellow of the University of Bombay. In 1861 he returned to England and went on the staff of the London " Daily Telegraph,” during his connection with which he brought about the expedition of George Smith to Assyria in 1873, and that of Henry M. Stanley to Africa in 1874. When the Queen was proclaimed Empress of India, he was named a Companion of the Star of

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