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Tennyson's Ode On The Death Of The Diixe Of Wellington.'

Tan Laureate's Ode derives its main attraction from the incident of the week for as a poem, it is hardly equal to its theme; and as a work Of art, it is by no means......

Books.

SMITH'S REPORT ON ITALIAN IRRIGATION. * GIBBON recommends a person about to read a new book, to call to mind'all he knows of the subject before beginning; and thus to, test as......

The Colloquies Of Edward Osborne..

OF the various attempts at delineating the manners and opinions of the Stuart and Elizabethan times as if from the pen of a con- temporary writer, Edward Osborne is the best. It......