14 SEPTEMBER 1872, page 23

Specimens Of Early English.*

IT is encouraging to the promoters of the study of English in schools to know that the first edition of Dr. Morris's excellent Specimens of Early English, A.D. 1250-1400, has......

Hawthorne's " Septimius."* Though No Reader Will Be...

place Septimius on a level with such finished masterpieces of the author as The Scarlet Letter and Transformation, few will regret, notwithstanding all its im- perfections, that......