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besides several new Readings of previously published pieces.

In 1867 a series of twelve songs by the Poet Laureate, entitled "The Window, or the Loves of the Wrens," were printed at Canford Manor, at the private printing-press of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest. It is difficult to fix the date of their composition; but in variety and peculiarity of metre they remind us of "Maud."

In the first song a lover, standing on the slope of a hill, perceives the window of his mistress, shining like a jewel in the distance. In a beautiful and melodious soliloquy he calls upon the lights and shadows, the winds and clouds, which are all pursuing one direction the house of his love. This song is divided into four stanzas, each terminating with a refrain.

In the second song the lover has approached his mistress's home, and he invokes the eglantine and rose and clematis and vine, that clasp and trail round her window, to drop him a flower, which request seems to be granted.

On entering the house, however, he