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Books.

PIKE COUNTY BALLADS.* OF the four Pike County Ballads which commence this volume, and are certainly much the best things in it, two, namely, Little Breeches and Jim 13ludso,......

"her Title Of Honour."

(TO THE EDITOR OT THE "SPROTAT0R.1 STE,—The reviewer of "Her Title of Honour" in last week's Spectator takes the book for an original novel, describing it as "an imaginary......

Poetry.

FROM HEINE. "MIT ROSEN, CYPIIESSEN,UND ruereaeor.e.- With roses and cypress and gold-leaf fine I would make my book lovely,—a sacred shrine, As if for the dead 'twere hallow'd......