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CRITICISM.

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CRITICISM. Crude, pompous, turgid," the reviewers said Sham passion and sham power to turn one tick Pin wheels of verse that sputtered as we read- Rockets of rhyme that showed the falling stick I" But while, assaulted of this buzzing band, The poet quivered at their little stingp, White doves cf sympathy o'er all the land Went flying with his fame beneath their wirgs! And every fresh year brought him love that cheers, As Caspian waves bring amber to their shore. And it befell that after many years, D Being now no longer young, he wrote crce more. Cold, classic, polished," the reviewers said A book you scarce canlov?, bowe'er you praise. We missed the old carelesssgrandeur as we read, The power and passion of his youneer (Jays — Atlantic Monthly. e BILLINGS ON AN AMERIC AN WATF.IUNG-PLACE. -In his new book, Trump Kard," Josh Billings says: Long. branch iz a w(,rk ov na'ur, and iz a good job. I put up at the Oshen hotel the last time I was thare, and shall put up thare again the next time I go, if I bav to sleep on the ver-indy, I never leave a good hotel for a better one; I lernt this fishing for fro;;s; if I am whara the frogs bite, that's mi puddle. Mi wife puts up with me at the came hotel; it is an old-fashioned way we have ov doing things. She always goes with me to fashion- able resorts, whare young widders are emiy ways plenty, to put me oa mi guard, for i am one ov the easyest creatures on record to be imposed upon, espeshily bi yung widders. She 13 an ornament to her sex, mi wife is. I would like to see a yung widder, or even an old onp, git this start of me, when mi wife iz around. H I just step out sudden, to get a weak lemonade to cool mi akeing brow, mi wife goes to the end ov the verandy with me, and waits for me, and if i go down onfo the beach to astronomise just a little, all alone, bi moonlite, she stands on the bluff, like a beacon lite, to warn me ov the breakers. The biggest thi, g they have got here, for the present, iz the pool ov water in front ov the hotels. This pool iz sed bi pood judges to be 3000 miles in length, and in sum places 5 miles thick. Into this pool, every day at ten o'kloek, the folks all retire, males, females, and widders, promiskues. The scenery here is grand, espesbily the pool, and the air iz az bracing ÐZ a milk puntch. Drinks are reason- able here, eEpeshily out of the pool, and the last touch of civiliz-ishun haz reached here also, sum enterpri- sing missionary has just opened a klub housa, whare all kinds cf gambling is taught.

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