28 NOVEMBER 1874, page 15

Books.

EDGAR POE.* IT is pleasant to have Edgar Poe rescued from the reputation of something like infamy to which his first biographer had con- signed him, even though it seems simply......

Poetry.

THE SWAN. [FROM THE SWEDISH OF RIINEBERG.] FROM cloud with purple-sprinkled rim A swan, in calm delight, Sank down upon the river's brim, And sang in June, one night. Of......