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Gift - Books.

TILE volumes of the nature of gift-books which come before us in the Christmas week form a lot miscellaneous enough ; in art, of some appa- rently solid pretensions—in......

Dr. Waller's Poems.* Wrrn Many Of The Qualities Of A

poet, Dr. Waller frequently neu- tralizes the effect of his powers by prolixity of treatment if not ex- actly of style, or by too little care in his selection of a subject.......