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Books.

JERVIS'S HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF FRANCE.* MR. JERVIS has certainly written a very careful and complete . historyof "The Church of France." as that term is commonly under, stood......

Poetry.

TO A POET. Thou who singest through the earth,— All the earth's wild creatures fly thee ; Everywhere thou rearrest mirth ; Dumbly they defy thee,— There is something they deny......

The Irish Clergy.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—It is encouraging to find the Spectator taking some count of our position,—that old methods of recruiting the Clerical Order are......