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Poetry.

THE CALM OF NATURE. [`` The tranquil rhythm of this fair Nature, the hurrying throb of the human interests it measures : there is the eternal poem of human life."—From the......

Books.

THE SAGAS OF THE NORSE KINGS.* THE first edition of this translation of the Heimskringla appeared more than forty years ago. The translator, a retired officer of the British......

Sapphics.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srn, — I have long been familiar with the sapphies quoted by your correspondent, " L. J. J.," in your issue of September 21st ; but they......