THE MODERN LYRIC. 



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as I know, none of his songs have yet been set to music and 

 pubHshed. 



Tlie Australian poets have so far done but Httle in this 

 field. Like the musicians before the time of Schubert, they 

 have turned their attention chiefly to larger productions, and 

 though their lyric poems are graceful and rich in poetic 

 fancy, yet they are so few in number as to seem almost 

 accidental. We still look to the future for the mighty men 

 who will do for Australia that which Goethe, Schiller, and 

 Heine have done for Germany ; which Burns has done for 

 Scotland and Longfellow for America ; which Tennyson, 

 Morris, Bridges, Rossetti, and many others are doing for 

 England. For, to shghtly alter Kendall — 



The song that still we dream about, 



The tender, touching thing, 

 As radiant as the rose without. 



The love of wind and wing ; 

 The perfect verses, to the tune 



Of perfect music set, 

 As beautiful as afternoon, 



Bemain unwritten yet. 



9.— THE PROVINCE OF THE AMATEUR IN ART. 



Bij REV. C. H. DICKER. 



10.— THE AUTHORSHIP OF SHAKESPEARE'S 

 PLAYS. 



By F. J. YOUNG, B.A. 



11.— SHAKESPEARE AND BACON. 

 By C. M. TENISON. 



(t I • R * 1^ r j ; 



12— THE RATIONALE OF EXAMINATIONS. 



Bij F. J. YOUNG. 



