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 ''"How gaily sinks the gorgeous Sun within his golden bed;" A Glance; "Oh, ye wild Winds, that roar and rave;" Switzerland; Babylon; The Slighted Lover; "Oh! were this heart of hardest steel;" "Cease, railer, cease! unthinking man;" "In Winter's dull and cheerless reign;" Anacreontic; Sunday Mobs; Phrenology; Imagination; Love; To ; Song; The Oak of the North; Exhortation to the Greeks; King Charles's Vision. ''

The Preface of the young poets informs us that these pieces "were written, not conjointly, but individually, which may account for their difference of style and matter." In spite of this assurance, it is in some cases not easy to settle with anything like certainty the authorship of a particular piece. An attentive comparison of these poems with later acknowledged writings of Alfred and Charles Tennyson has, however, been rewarded by the discovery of certain parallel passages which, we think, will enable us to apportion a certain number of them to their respective authors, without much hesitation or doubt.

The following twelve pieces, from internal evidence of style, and from parallel passages in later and ac-