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Poetey. — Love - Songs. By George Barlow....

get his head above the crowd of candidates for poetical fame. He has done it by his persistence and industry; successive volumes of verse have challenged the attention of......

Tins Trimble's Little Mother. By C. L. Mateanx. (cassell,...

and Galpin.)—Miss Mateaux has woven together here a story of human and a story of bird-life. Tim Trimble is an adventurous spirit, who has left the dullness of a village life......

The Golden Hind, Menai, And, Other Poems. By Charles...

M.A. (George Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Robinson's "Story of the In- vincible Armada "would have been better told, we think, in prose, or in anythingrather than the indifferent......

A Voyage Up The Niger To Benueh. By Adolphe Burdo.

From the French, by Mrs. George Sturge. (Bentley and Son.)—Mons. Burdo does full justice to his exploits, when be calls them "Travels in Central Africa." He does not seem to......