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Massey's Craigcrook Castle. *

THIS volume of poetry will not advance,' indeed it will hardly sustain, Gerald Massey's reputation. To take the most obvious point first, his diction is defective, sometimes in......

Payne Collier, Coleridge, Shakspere. * As Mr. Payne...

respectable a place among men of letters to need any petty . devices for gaining reputation, we se e no sufficient reason why he has bound in the same cover the matter of three......

Books.

DE LODEDIE'S BDAIIMA.RCHAIS. * DIE celebrated Beaumarchais was not so very important a person as his present biographer and those who speak after him repre- sent : still the......