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WITH A MEMOIR BY WILLIAM SHARP.

The Globe says:—“The volume should be acquired, if only for the sake of the memoir by Mr. William Sharp, by which it is prefaced The fullest and most authoritative account that has yet appeared. Its statements may be relied upon, it is excellent in feeling, and it affords altogether a successful portrayal of the poet.”

The Scotsman says:—“A brief memoir by Mr. William Sharp, ably and sympathetically written, introduces the stories, and makes the volume one which the author’s many admirers will be eager to possess. Powerful studies, romantic in sentiment.”