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Castilian Days.*

THERE could be little doubt that the author of the volume of poems that contains, amongst others, the Pike County Ballads, would describe with spirit and originality his......

Current Literature.

Our Poor Relations: a Philozoic Essay. By Colonel E. B. Hamley. (Blackwood and Son.)—This is a charming little book, such as may be read through in half an hour ; nor would it......

Some Miscellaneous Papers Illustrating The Subject Of...

infer from the different signatures which are appended to some of them that they are not all of the same authorship, and they certainly vary considerably in merit and interest.......

The Medea, Alcestis, And Hippolytus Of Euripides...

Rev. H. Williams. (Longmans.)—We cannot compliment Mr. Williams on his versification, which is singularly bald and unmelodious ; nor generally on his success in what be calls......