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Books.

MR. J. RUSSELL LOWELL'S NEW POEMS * EVEN Mr. Lowell's humour would never have been what it is, and what in the unequalled Biglow Papers all the world acknow- ledges it to be,......

Ballads From The Scandinavian.*

TILE ballad is the characteristic poetry of national childhood. Dealing, of course, with mature passions and the adventures of the heroic age,—the age when so much depends on......