21 FEBRUARY 1874, page 19

An Irish Historical Collection.*

THE first volume of this Calendar contains two of the most important sections of the Carew Manuscripts,—namely, the " Book of Howth " and Bray's " Conquest of Ireland." The......

Drummond Of Hawthornden.'

PROFESSOR MASSON, in that part of his Life and Times of Milton, in which he takes a comprehensive survey of British poetry when Milton began to write, devoted three pages,......