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Poetry.

HORACE.—BOOK I., ODE I. 212ECENAS ATAVIS. MAscENAs, friend, my stay, my glory, Scion of Kings renowned in story ! Some o'er th' Olympic plain delight To guide the chariots'......

D.a.nte.

[" TANTO GENTILE E PANTO ONESTA PARE."] So gentle and so beauteous doth appear My lady, when she maketh a salute, That every tongue, trembling, becometh mute ; The eye to look......

Books.

JESUITS AND SECULARS UNDER ELIZABETH. * SUCH recent publications as the Dauay Diaries and the Letters' and Memorials of Cardinal Allen have already done much to clear up the......

The Rook.

[TO THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your lady-correspondent from Trinity Vicarage, Gains- borough, asks if any instance can be given similar to that of her tamed rook. I......