20 APRIL 1889, page 22

Two Books Of Verse.* Mn. Rennell Rodd Began His Poetical

career under the happiest auspices, and there were some of us who—in the face of depressing experience—were confident that his pro- missory-notes of song would be duly met upon......

Current Literature.

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Sailors' °haunts.*

THE effort that has been made, with more zeal than accuracy, by Miss Smith to collect representative specimens of sailors' songs of all nations was certainly a task worth......