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We mention with pleasure A Whittier Treasury, Selected by the

Countess of Portsmouth (Broadbent, Manchester), one of a series of little volumes designed within the reach of many readers, specimens of "noble and inspiring literature." Of all modern singers there is not one who lends himself so entirely to this object as the blameless Whittier. An enthusiast for all that was pure and lovely and of good report, and without any narrowing limitations of thought, he was indeed a 'rates sacer.—Among:the other "Treasuries" are two that have been selected from P. J. Bailey (author of " Festus ") and Mackenzie Bell.