13 FEBRUARY 1864, page 18

The Travels Of Ludovico Di Varthema.* Liidovico Di...

of the most daring and successful explorers of the sixteenth century, was, according to the Bio- graphie Universelle, " gentilhomme Bolonais et patrice Romain," and beyond......

Lord Houghton's Poems.*

IT has not often been the lot either of the greater or the minor poets to know exactly what were the subjects which had so far touched the springs of their own personal fancy or......