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MR. WEMYSS REID'S LIFE OF MR. FORSTER.* [FIRST NOTICE.] Tras book is a very admirable piece of work which will justly gain for Mr. Wemyss Reid a still higher reputation than......

The Calling Of Thomas De Quincey's Father.

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — With regard to the statement of your reviewer, in the 'Spectator of June 30th, regarding the calling of Thomas de Quincey's father, I......

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SONNETS IN MY LIBRARY.—II. CRASHAW'S TOEMS. I. AMONG earth's poets certain known of few Pass into deathlessness o'er death's frontiers, 17npraised, unprized, unlaurell'd of......