PAGE. REVIEWS:- A Group of Poets, 122. 602 . 206 167, 346 Very Hard Case, A.-I. Everett Ways of Wall Street, The -Kin- ་ THE SOUTHERN MAGAZINE Južÿ, 1875. SCOTTISH AND SCANDINAVIAN PICTURES. I. 1.- SEA AND LAND. O most persons, the sea is a horror of rocking and see-sawing. grows green and takes the aspect of Stilton cheese. There is no hope on the horizon. Above, the sky; beneath, the see-sawing, sliding sea. Everything see-saws and slides. The pantry labors under a nightmare of groaning crockery; the kitchen hisses with tilting vessels throwing off clouds of steam; the saloon is an earthquake below stairs; the steerage is a catacomb buried beneath the sea, and yet alive with hideous motion. Upstairs, the world walks horizontally; downstairs, it walks on its head, or whatever else it may have left to walk on. An effort to go down the grand-saloon staircase, with its metallic matting and brass knobs, becomes a delirious flight into the arms of ascending chambermaids and gruel. Around, on the cushions of the deck-saloon, coil knots of misery in the shape of forlorn women, hysterical women, women with headaches, women with lemons, women with eyes like poppies or sunflowers, according as the blood or the bile is in the ascendant; women with heads lower than their feet, desperately trying to ward off sea-sickness; women with dismal heads wrapped in dowdy nubias, and looking wearily on the weary sea; women clutching greasy books bound in brown leather, and making herculean efforts to forget their stomachs; women lying outstretched, scrap-bags of indistinguishable waterproofs and mackin |