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Poetry. •

THE EXILES.* WATCH how the South-bound swallows go I What manner of folk are they ? Out of the sky they came to you, Guests of a summer's day,— Born in your sheltering thatch,......

Books.

JOHN DRYDEN.f JOHN DRYDEN, an admirable poet, an ingenious playwright, a critic with intervals of brilliant clairvoyance, wins our suffrages chiefly by his mastery of prose. His......

A Love Lyric From The Greek.* The First' Kiss.

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