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Books.

MR. BUCIL1NAN'S LONDON POEMS.* Mn. BUCHANAN is far more than a minor poet. The volume before us would seem to prove that there is scarcely any eminence, short of the very......

Nature's Last Gift.

Mother, when the light is dead, And night-throngs round us thicken, Are there other joys instead, Which the holy dark must quicken ? Is there any gift of thine, That may help......

Art.

ADVICE TO FUTURE R.A.'s.* THE teaching conveyed in these lectures is generally sound and sensible. It is not always novel, it is sometimes unconsciously paradoxical, and......