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Poetry.

A CHARACTER—AND A QUESTION. A DUBIOUS, strange, uncomprehended life, A roll of riddles with no answer found, A sea-like soul which plummet cannot sound, Torn with belligerent......

Clergymen Past Work.

[To THE EDITOR OP Iii. " SPECTATOR,") Si, — Your suggestion of a clerical pension fund is better, .f.hink, than the charge on resigned benefices provided by the 1), ces......

Books.

MR. MARK PATTISON'S MILTON.* To write a satisfactory and, at the same time, a brief biography of John Milton, is a difficult task, and we question whether hitherto it has been......