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founded upon Holman Hunt's picture of "Our Saviour in the

Temple."

Mr. Tenner tells us that he is well aware of the discouraging circum- stance "that no kind of composition is so little attractive to the general

public now as that which takes the form of poetry,"—without its substance, he ought to have added. We fear that he is destined to verify the remark. Were we to enter into a criticism of his poems, we should be tending to show that his experience was not at fault.