THE MONTHLY PACKET = OF EVENING READINGS FOR Members of the English Church. EDITED BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE AND CHRISTABEL R. COLERIDGE. NEW SERIES.-V. VOLUME LXXXV. PARTS DIII. TO DVIII., JAN.-JUNE 1893. LONDON: A. D. INNES AND CO., 31 & 32, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C. 1893. Passé Défini Girl, The. By Hon. Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen Petty Constable in Shakspere's Time, The. By Grace Latham Religion of Persia, The. By Rev. P. Lilly St. Willibrord's Dance at Echternach Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. By Helen Zimmern 179, 278 153, 266 601 Six Studies in Italian Literature. IV. VI. By F. J. Snell -End Strolling Players. By C. M. Yonge and C. R. Coleridge. Chap. XXIX. Sun-Rays and Star-Beams. By Agnes Giberne :— I.-Astronomy Old and New II. The Nature of Light. III.-Radiant Wavelets. Travelled Lady's Maid, A Tunis to Kairwán By Florence Freeman. Visit to the Vardarelli, A. By Mrs. Church THE MONTHLY PACKET. NEW SERIES. JANUARY, 1893. 'TEMPUS FUGIT.' I. THERE came a Spirit from the North loud crying, And fading in the mists of Long Ago.' II. But Time, the great destroyer, likewise healeth, And sends again the Spring, whose quickening breath, Calm as a summer dawn o'er Nature stealeth, And wakes the woodlands from their sleep of death, And the soft Spirit voice again is ringing, P. R. C. VOL. 85 (V.-NEW SERIES). I NO. 503. |