"A tale powerfully told, and with a good moral strongly enforced."--
_Kentish Gazette._

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we have ever read."--_Cincinnati Gazette_.

"It is the fervour of style, the freshness of illustration, the depth of
true feeling present in every page that gives these tales a charm
peculiar to themselves."--_New York Evening Post_, Edited by W. C.
Bryant.

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BALLADS FOR THE TIMES, AND OTHER POEMS.

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KING ALFRED'S POEMS,

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