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Current Literature.

Poems by V., Author of "Paul Ferrell." (Longmans.)—It has been said that " if it be trite that the female mind is not naturally inferior to that of man, it must yet be admitted......

Hawthorne's " Septimius."* Though No Reader Will Be...

place Septimius on a level with such finished masterpieces of the author as The Scarlet Letter and Transformation, few will regret, notwithstanding all its im- perfections, that......