13 JANUARY 1866, page 17

Poetical Selections.*

THE strong impulse which almost all people who love poetry, and are not themselves poets, feel to select their own selection of poems is curious enough. The dislike to using the......

Books.

H A REM LIFE IN EGYPT.* THERE is no problem in literature so difficult as to write on deli - cate things delicately, and Mrs. Emmeline Lott—if there be such a person—certainly......