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 Rh "British Parliament, in 1835," translated from Revue des Deux Mondes teacher Garnett again; "National Ingratitude," by Matthew Carey; more of the "Diary of an Invalid;" "Love and Constancy," by E. Burke Fisher; and a number of poems, long and short, by Eliza, J. F. Otis, M. Carey, Jno. C. McCabe and others.

Unless Mr. Poe wrote "Erostratus," there is nothing of his but thirteen pages of critical notices. These embrace "Random Recollections of the House of Lords," by Mr. Grant, a young Scotch reporter; Mrs. Sigourney's "Letters to Young Ladies;" "The Doctor," which he thinks was not written by Southey, but its wit and humor have seldom been equaled; "Frederick Von Raumer's England, in 1835;" a reprint of "Memoirs of an American Lady"—partly before the Revolution, by Mrs. Grant of Laghan; "Camperdown, or News from Our Neighborhood," and a sequel, by an anonymous author, both of which are approved. The poems of W. D. Gallagher are handled both with and without gloves: "Life on the Lakes" is pretty well scored; but "Russia and the Russians," by Leigh Ritchie, an American reprint without the illustrations, is highly lauded.

There is another eight-page Supplement of Notices of the Press, some of which employ a true and friendy candor that is tolerated. But