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Books.

MR. SWINBURNE'S TRISTRAM.* To Mr. Swinburne's poetry you may certainly apply the saying about not being able to see the forest for the trees. It is a forest—about that there is......

Henry Erskine And His Times.* The Man Whom Jeffrey Openly

admitted to be his political and legal model, and of whom it was said that, while he lived, no poor man in Scotland need want a friend or fear a foe, must have been something......