. American lands and letters. ^ : (9 ^ . ^ •! 3 J i =5 ^ i_ t r^ ^ - <= :3 .t ^, 1 -^ r^^. Ai^ _2. 4 I 298 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. bnndle of enkindling stories to the illuminationof many a fireside circle. They may indeed, and will — always, I think — call to mind certainother Canterhury Tales — which is a pity ! Thethrush may and doessing delightfully ; hutif the memory of thejoyous, rollicking roun-delay of the Bob - o -Lincoln obtrudes be-tween the notes — tisbad for the thrush. Asfor the Opera magna —as he counted them, itis not needful .to speak :. H. W. Longfellow, From a photo^raf

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. American lands and letters. ^ : (9 ^ . ^ •! 3 J i =5 ^ i_ t r^ ^ - <= :3 .t ^, 1 -^ r^^. Ai^ _2. 4 I 298 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. bnndle of enkindling stories to the illuminationof many a fireside circle. They may indeed, and will — always, I think — call to mind certainother Canterhury Tales — which is a pity ! Thethrush may and doessing delightfully ; hutif the memory of thejoyous, rollicking roun-delay of the Bob - o -Lincoln obtrudes be-tween the notes — tisbad for the thrush. Asfor the Opera magna —as he counted them, itis not needful .to speak :. H. W. Longfellow, From a photo^rafh in the collccti*of Mr. Peter Gtlscy. the Christus, with its Golden Legend, will alwaysbe valued for its scholarly ranges and for itspleasantly recurring poetic savors. It liardlyseems up to the full score of his purpose or of hisambitions ; monkish ways are laid down tenderly,as they wended through mediseval wastes ; andso are Christ-ways of later and lightsomer times :

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