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Poems by by Three Sisters. (Hatchard and Co.)—The Surrey hills and the vale of Albnry are the scenes which these three ladies love to adorn with the wreath of poetry. If we may venture to distinguish between them we should say that Mary Frances has a charming enthusiasm and practical love of freedom, Ellin-Isabelle a soothing pensive fancy which delights in retrospect, and Margaret-Elenora a high soul and a lofty theory of morals. Mary-Frances celebrates the Volunteers, and the Neapolitan exiles, and Garibaldi, and Lord Dudley Stuart,—" Champion of Freedom ;" Ellin-Isabelle writes graceful ballads ; and Margaret- Elenora sings "The Triumph of Virtue" and musically defines "True Nobility." Yet each sometimes strays on to the poetical pastures of the others, so as to give a graceful unity, a likeness in difference, and an individuality in similitude to this little volume. To award the prize between these ladies would be a task harder than that of Paris.
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