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by Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff, "to lay down amounting to 9.52 per cent on the capital 



rules for the interlacing, encouragement invested, while thirteen others yielded only 



and control of irrigation work in India." 6.52 per cent, reducing the average return* 



According to the Annual Review of Irri- to 7 per cent. The total area of the crops 



gation, published last month, twenty-two irrigated or protected exceeded 18.500,000 



irrgating works in India realized in the acres, being an increase of over 750,000 



fiscal year of 1900-1901 a net revenue during the year. 



AT THE CLOSE OF SUMMER. 



By S. Raymond Jocelyn. 

 Russet clad, yet sports the plaintive thrush, 



Beside great meadows, green with aftermath; 

 And eloquent amidst the Sabbath hush 



The wood dove's notes fall on the orchard path. 



The lichen whitens and the plump peach falls, 

 The sunflower, now its rightful crown assumes; 



Proud covey -sultan on yon headland calls, 

 Where dusky wild grapes scent the willow plumes. 



Beneath the dandelion's faded gold; 



Through thistles' silvered hair its pale strands peep; 

 The sumach's vivid fruit hangs flaunting bold 



Where spider threads float quivering o'er the steep! 



CITY LIFE. 



(A parody on Alexander Selkirk, by Wm. Cowper.) 



By H. L. K. 



I own nothing of all I survey, 



My right here all seem to dispute; 

 From the Harlem clear down to the bay, 



There's not room for a fowl or a shoot. 

 O, city life, where are the charms 



That millions can see in thy face? 

 Better dwell in the poorest of barns 



Than live in this horrible place. 



I am right in humanity's reach, 



Not a foot can I journey alone, 

 Never hear the sweet music of speech, 



(For a week I have not heard my own), 

 The people that rush through the streets 



My form with indifference see; 

 The girls jostle wherever we meet, 



Their boldness is shocking to me. 



