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Posts.y.—madonna, And Other Poems. By Harrison S. Morris....

Dent.)—Mr. Morris's verse is distinctly above the level of mediocrity, but does not rise into excellence. Correct, fluent, touched again and again with tenderness and force, it......

Booxs Received. — Chess Sparks; Or, Short And Bright...

Collected and arranged by I. H. Elie, M.A. (Long- mans.)—Handbook of Games. By William Hutchinson. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Greenhouse and Window Plants. By Charles Collings.......