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Books.

A CENTURY OF SPANISH HISTORY.* Tins is an excellent manual and one that was much needed. The ordinary idea of romantic Spain, the land of the bull- fight and of the mantilla, of......

Poetry.

JOHN RUSKIN. QUENCHED is the lamp, ev'n in its flickering dear ; We miss the light: we would not have him here ; No carping littlenesses lift their head Where he is, 'mid the......

That Follows, As You Move About The Room, Ab, This

is he who trod the darkening ways, And plucked the flowers upon the edge of doom— The bright, sweet-scented flowers that star the road To Death's dim dwelling. Others heed them......