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The Poet And The Man. By Francis H. Underwood. (lee

and Shepard, Boston, U.S.)—Dr. Underwood seems to have known Lowell intimately. He saw much of him in private life, and he was his colleague in the conduct of the Atlantic......

The " Son Of The Marshes" And His Interpreter.*

SHEPHERDS and sylvans have been so long the puppets and mouthpieces of authors and poets, that we must go back almost to the days of Theocritus, or of Amos among the herds- men......

William Blake. By Alfred T. Story. (swan Sonnenschein And...

book deals in great part with the intellectual side of Blake's genius. Mr. Story is not an indiscriminate worshipper; but he goes beyond the limits of admiration which a quite......

Current Literature.

Platonics. A Study by Ethel M. Arnold. (Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—It is a question that will excite the curiosity of the reader of this impressive little tale, whether it was......

Admirably Suited For Children's Acting. But Why Does Miss...

shrink from making Cinderella's sisters mutilate their feet in order to get them into the glass slipper ? That is a rose-waterish literary proceeding which children will hardly......

Convenient One, For It Shuts The Mouth Of Any Critic

who might be disposed to comment on the probability of the incident. That is indeed a consideration with which it is needless to trouble oneself. We have a capital story, moving......

Joseph," And "moses." There Is No Special Novelty In The

treat- ment of these subjects ; and Dr. Blaikie, quite rightly, we think, ignores the criticism which would relegate the pre-Mosaic history to the region of legend. The......