Such a King Harry.

[5] A Collection of Poems of the Sixteenth Century.--Communicated
by J.F., of Gray's Inn. We thank our Correspondent for the
present, and shall be happy to receive further specimens from the
same source.

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

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AMERICAN IMPROVEMENTS.


[The very recent publication of the ninth volume of the Encyclopaedia
Americana[6] enables us to lay before our readers the following
interesting notices, connected with the national weal and internal
economy of the United States of North America.]

_Navy_.--Since the late war, the growth and improvement of our navy
has kept pace with our national prosperity. We could now put to sea,
in a few mouths, with a dozen ships of the line; the most spacious,
efficient, best, and most beautiful constructions that ever traversed
the ocean. This is not merely an American conceit, but an admitted
fact in Europe, where our models are studiously copied. In the United