4 JANUARY 1862, page 24

Books.

AMERICAN TENTATIVE NATIONAL HYMNS.* Tins book consists of two portions—a critical and an original. The critical, so far as it touches upon the formation of the British and......

Dante's Vita Nuova.* The Love Of Dante For Beatrice Is

something more than a mere episode in the life of a great man. He himself, in the first passion of his grief, "all drowned in tears within this desolate city," declared that he......