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Byrom's Poems.* The Chetham Society Must Be Congratulated...

obtained for this edition of Byrom's Poems (making up the annual issue for the years 1894.95) the services of so dis- tinguished a scholar as Principal Ward. Byrom himself, si......

Book-verse: An Anthology Of Poems Of Books And Bookman From

the Earliest Times to Recent Years. Edited by W. Roberts. (Elliot Stock.)—If an anthology of this kind be called for, it could not have had a more competent editor than the......

Old Maids Ani New. By Elsa D'esterre-keeling. (cassell...

is a good deal of unforced cleverness, unnecessarily long drawn out, however, in this story. There is in it plenty of modern art, and of living abroad more or less upon the......

This Age Of Ours. By Charles Hermann Leibbrand, Ph.d....

Low, Marston, and Co.) —The author of this curious book has evidently got through a great deal of reading, and not a little thinking. But it is also evident that he has not......

Current Literature.

Johnson's Lives of the Poets. A. new edition. With Notes and Intro- duction by Arthur Waugh. In 6 vols. Vol. I. (Began Paul and Co.) —Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. With......