17 APRIL 1880, page 14

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MR. MALLOCK'S POEMS.* "THE poems in this volume," says Mr. Mallock, in his preface, "with but one or two exceptions, were written between my seventeenth and my twentieth year. A......

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DEAR MR. SPECTATOR, we've fancied of late That your style has been verging too much on the " blate." I have tried to defend you, and urged that a strain Of just indignation and......