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Oypah's Return, And Other Poems. By Walter Alfred Hills....

Hardwicke.)--The author calls these "first fruits," and certainly they have not much flavour. In preference, however, to criticism we shall give our readers one of Mr. Hill's......

Poems. By Elinor J. S. Maitland. (macmillan And...

would be better if there was a little less classical enthusiasm about them. When we are told of the Lake of Como that "Pliny called thee his delight In those accents whose sweet......

Death.

MAILTORIBANKS—On the 22nd inst., at Brighton, of scarlatina, after forty-eight hours' il'ness, Stewart, second son of Dudley Coutta Marjoribauks, aged eleven years.......

Christmas At Old Court. By The Author Of "richelieu In

Love." (Bentley.)—This work seems to have been composed in the hope that certain dramatic and poetic compositions might be fortunate enough, when imbedded as plums in the middle......

William Altair ; Or, Running Away To Sea. By Mrs.

Henry Wood. (Griffith and Farran.)—It is a matter of curious conjecture with us what can have raised in the mind of Mrs Wood such a terror of the sea. If ten of her own children......

Books Received.

Kilmahoe, a Highland Pastoral, by John Campbell Sbairp (Macmillan and Co.)— The Writers before Chaucer, by Henry Morley (Chapman and Hall).—The Smuggler Chief, by Gustave......