15 AUGUST 1868, page 22
John Hailer's Niece. By Russell Gray. (tinsley.)—these...
some isolated scenes that are fairly conceived and executed, but the book, as a whole, is very weak. John Haller is a gentleman who has been jilted, and vows that he will never......
Current Literature.
Memnon, and other Poems. By John Edmund Reade. (Moxon.)— Memnon is an Egyptian republican who rouses his countrymen to rebel against King Amasis, refuses the crown for himself,......
Booth's Metrical Epitaphs.*
To write elaborate epitaphs is to employ the dead as custodians of the wit of the living, a practice savouring of irreverent egoism, and no doubt incongruous with the piety of......
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