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Whether The Age For Epic Poetry Has Passed—whether A Work

can be written in which the spirit of the writer's age shall not be reflected—we need not stay to discuss. Mr. Zavarr, the author of The Viking, has so little idea of the......

The Original Intention Of The Compiler Of Sertum...

to include in it all the festivals and principal saints' days of our ecclesiasti- cal year; but this plan would have rendered the book too bulky. A selection has therefore been......

In A Speech Delivered By Mr. Macaulay Some Time Since

at Edinburgh, the orator ridiculed the canon in Pope's well-known couplet on the danger of a little learning. Upon this Professor Forbes, in a lecture on the Danger of Supe r,......

The Illustrated Companion To The Latin Dictionary And...

is a useful book for the youthful student or the general reader. The object is to define the words that represent the names of visible objects, by exhibiting engravings of the......

Disraeli And The Curiosities Of Liter), Runs.* The Word "

fourteenth " in the titlepage of this edition does not in strict- ness belong to the whole work, which gradually grew from one volume into six volumes. There is no doubt,......

Publications Received.

BOOKS. History of Greece. By George Grote, Esq. Volumes V. and VL Memoir of the House of Brandenburg, and History of Prussia during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By......