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Poetry.

"THE RETURN OF THE DOVE," BY G. F. wArrs, R.A. [ROYAL ACADEMY, 1869.] ONLY a waste of waters, Only a tideless sea, Which is not life, which is not death, But death in life to......

Books.

CREASY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.* Tins work, as the author tells us, "is chiefly founded on the manuscripts of lectures delivered by him during the twenty years for which he was......