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Younger American Poets.*

IT is difficult to conceive anything more disappointing than the work before us. It is a selection from those Atnerlean poets of the present generation who are not well known to......

Current Literature.

Cardinal Beaton, Priest and Politician. By John Horkless. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Horkless has no reason to be dis- satisfied with the subject of this memoir, for Beaton......

Scott : "lady Of The Lake." Edited, With Preface And

Notes, by W. Minto, M.A., "Clarendon Press Series." (Oxford.)—Scott's "Lady of the Lake." With Introduction and Notes by G. H. Stuart, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—" English......