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Four Centuries Of English Letters.*

"Din you ever see Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets It is a very useful collection, though not, to my judgment,- made with due knowledge or taste,—but still a good......

Ouida's New Novel.*

A Village Commune, by Ouida, is a book of the dreariest and most pessimistic tendencies that ever was shaped in the form of a novel. Here is a brief outline of the contents :—In......