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Historical Odes And Other Poems. By Richard Watson Dixon,...

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The first of these odes is on Wellington, and. Revolution is apostrophized as follows :— "Blind, self-tormenting, raging, fiend of Dante, In force of......

Sylvia's Lovers. By Mrs. Gaskell. (smith, Elder, And...

Saved. By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. (Hurst and Blackett.)—We have so recently criticized these novels at length (see Spectator for 1863, pages 1699 and 20391 that it will now be......

Poems. By G. Washington Moon, Author Of A "defence Of

the Queen's English." (Hatehard and Co.) Poems. By B. H. Farquhar. (F. Pitman.)—One is unwilling to speak unkindly of little books of this sort, which have a directly religious......

Golden Words. (john Henry And James Parker.)—a Volume Of...

from the writings of English divines of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, by a lay member of the Church of England. We shall, perhaps, give the best idea of the book......

Horeb And Jerusalem. By The Rev. George Sandie....

Douglas.)—Those who take up this volume under the idea that they are about to reed an ordinary book of travels will be disappointed. The author and his companions are but little......

A Mathematical Course For The University Of London. By...

Kimber, M.A., London. Part I. (Longman and Co.)-7-A new edition of this work having been called for, Mr. Kimber has published that portion of it which was needed by students who......

Maude Winthrop's Life Charge. By Mace Anstruther. Two Vols.

(C. J. Skeet.)—If this novel is the work of a novice, it is of some pro- mise—the story is fragmentary to a degree, and the conclusion marries off only the insignificant......

The Life Of Stonewall Jackson. By Hon. J. M. Daniels,

a Virginian. (Bacon and Co.)—General Jackson is greatly to be pitied. A short modest narrative of the exploits of so heroic a character could not but be acceptable, but this......

The Two Families; Or, The Power Of Religion. By J.

C. Bateman. (Hatchard and Co.)—There are certain families in this tale who never open their lips except to speak in Biblical language, and they are models of virtue, and attain......

The Art Union Of London Has Done Itself Great Credit

by publishing Mr. Noel Paton's Illustrations of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Much of the weird and unearthly spirit of the original has been infused into those pictures ;......

Poems And Songs. By Charles Welsh Mason. (bell And...

would be unjust to deny that the author has both taste and feeling, but the principal poem, a monody on the death of the Prince Consort, is, we think, an unfortunate subject. It......