Review of reviews and world's work . tent to make a charming selectionfrom the lyric poets of the seventeenth century than , and this little volume needs no words of is a bit of work for which the compiler deserves the thanksof the many people who still read poetry. MISCELLANEOUS. Wisps of Wit and Wisdom ; or. Knowledge in a Albert P. Southwick, 16mo, pp. 285. NewYork : A. Lovell & Co. $1. This little volume, which reads like a collection of choiceextracts from Notes and Queries, can be commended as avery interesting thing to have in the family. It will
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