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Lays And Ballads From English History.

Tuniin ballads were originally written for the author's children ; and their object seems to be to impress upon the juvenile mind some of the more striking facts of history by......

Zoe, The History Of Two. Lives,

IS a work of considerable ability and power, though not of great inte- rest as a fiction. It is a metaphysical novel ; not presenting any general views of life, or persons that......

The British Quarterly Review.

Tun principle we have more than once applied to a new periodical- " Does it supply a want? "—may in an extended sense be held to em- brace the essentials requisite to success.......