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Gray's Elegy, Artist's Edition. (J. B. Lippincott and Co., Phila-

delphia, U.S.; John Stark, London.)—This volume is adorned with some twenty illustrations of landscape and figures, not unworthy in design of the poem of which they are the companions, and engraved with all the skill and effect in which the art' of America is, in this respect, pre-eminent. We may mention two excellent samples of the illustrations, two that occur on successive pages,—" How jocund did they drive their team a-field " (though the faces are scarcely Eng- lish), drawn by Harry Poore and engraved' by H. Heineman ; and "The paths of glory lead but to the grave," drawn by F. S. Church and engraved by Arthur Hayman.