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Longfellow's pathetic little poem, The Wreck of the Hesperus,' appears

in an illustrated edition. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—The pictures are good, and the engraving displays some of the marvellous effects which American artists were the first to get out of the graving. tool. But is the subject one quite suited for such copious illustra- tion ? We know little people to whom the remembrance of that last picture, the dead child lashed to the mast and washed by the stormy sea, would be a long-continued sorrow.

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