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MR. WARD'S ENGLISH POETS.* THESE two volumes will probably attract more readers than the earlier selections. The poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are criticised......

Fifty Years Of The House Of Lords.* Tins Little Volume

of ninety-five pages is a very opportune publication. Its aim, which it has fulfilled admirably, is to give a sort of bird's-eye view of the influence of the House of Lords on......