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Books.

SIR JAMES SITLIVAN.* THE Snlivans were a race of sailors, and the forces of heredity and the immediate ancestry of Sir James could scarcely turn out aught but a sailor. His......

Poetry.

.10 •■-■. THE LATEST FEAR. TIME was, I said, I fear not Death, For Death is but the end— Darkness, a pang, a failing breath That heals what Love can't mend. My God ! I cried, it......

Dog-stories.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin.—Kindly allow me to add the two following to yourinterest- ing examples of canine sagacity and intelligence. Forty years ago a large......