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Poetry. —poems. By John Francis O'donnell. (ward And...

who writes an interesting introduction to this volume, tells us how it came into existence. A series of articles appeared in a Dublin newspaper on " Irish Graves in England,"......

Elsa. By E. Mcqueen Gray. (methuen.)—elsa Von Hochwald Is...

daughter of an Austrian officer who has married a Venetian young lady, very much against the wishes of her family, who were all ardent patriots. Von Hochwald falls into disgrace......

Current Literature.

A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations. Compiled by John Devoe Belton. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is a really good book. The author has selected with judgment 'from the mass......

Recent Novels.*

As a matter of course, the now numerous novels of Mr. F. Marion Crawford vary somewhat in excellence ; but few novelists of' any distinction have preserved b. more constant......

Lectures On Architecture And Painting. By John Ruskin,...

edition. (G. Allen, Orpington.)—This new edition of lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1853, has, we think, been printed without alteration. Mr. Ruskin sometimes modifies his......

Lewis Cass. By Andrew C. Mclaughlin. (houghton And...

and New York.)—This is one of the series of American Statesmen," of which some twenty, including Wash- ington, J. Q. Adams, Monroe, Jefferson, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay,......