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Payn's Poems. * There Is Much Promise And Some...

this little volume of verses. The writer has tenderness of feeling, a perception of the true points of interest in a story and of beauty in a landscape, and the not common power......

The Head Of The Family.*

Tins novel exhibits a great improvement over both its predecessors. The pictures of common life are more numerous, if not more gene- ral; there is more action, greater variety......

Publications Received.

Booxs. Jacob Bendizen, the Jew. Adapted from the Danish of Goldschmidt. By Mary lfowitt. In three volumes. Antony, the Deaf and Dumb _Boy. In two volumes. The Practical Working......