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Poems. By Thomas Wilson. (glasgow : Murray.)—mr. Wilson Is A

gentleman whose poetical gifts appear to be of a somewhat versatile kind. Within the narrow compass of one small volume be gives us a sensation drama called "Sir Ralph Meredith......

Current Literature.

Poems, from the Dawn of British Literature to the Year 1669. (Edin- burgh : Maclaron.)--This pretty little volume consists of a collection of short poems, all of which are of a......

The Last Feat Of The Sensation School Of Novelists.*

THE sensation novel is becoming a nuisance, and a nuisance which will, doubtless, rectify itself. It may be thrilling for the first time to see the witches' cauldron simmering,......