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Memorials of the Late Francis 0. Fisch. With selections from

his writings. (Longman and Co.)—Mr. Finch was well known as a most accompliithed man, a good landscape-painter, a good teacher, and a good friend. We cannot therefore wonder that his widow should have collected these papers and published them, with a pleasant memoir of a very un- eventful life. The essay on "The Use of the Dramatic Faculty " and the sonnets seem to us the best of the general writings, the sonnet to a

swallow being especially graceful in expression. The theological papers are of less value, as Mr. Finch was an earnest follower of Swedenborg, but their publication can hardly be blamed in a volume which appeals in the main to the writer's personal friends, of whom many doubtless hold the same views.