28 JULY 1866, page 20

A Lay Of The First Crusade.*

THE author of this poem has taste, talent, and culture, and pro- bably wants nothing so much as a little experience of life, which might have led him to build, even in a work of......

The Oratorical Yearbook.*

Tars book is an exceedingly good and useful one in conception, and on the whole, we think, well executed in detail. A collection of the great speeches of the year really forms a......