I do, and I think I shall-I feel it in me-I will raise her statue in marble, for all the world to come and bow to! What a glorious day it was for us that brought her here!"

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Aye, Master Frank," said Wilton, and she looked earnestly round at her recovered treasures, while the tears rushed to her eyes, "it makes good what the Bible says-in entertaining a stranger, we entertained an angel unawares!"

THE END.

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ANNESLEY

AND OTHER POEMS.

Extracts from Notices.

ANNESLEY is a poem of nearly six hundred lines, and of a pathetic and religious cast... The feeling and piety of the Deserted Village,' and the pith and antithesis of Crabbe, which mark so much of the narrative, cannot escape our poetical friends. . . We have been surprised and charmed with this début in the poetic world.”

Literary Gazette.

"Miss Drury, without being an imitator in the bad sense of the word, is of the school of Crabbe ;-wanting his vigorous touch, but possessing more of delicacy and refinement." Athenæum.

"The principal poem is a 'Sketch of Private Life,' from five to six hundred lines in length, and reminding us often, in merit as well as manner, of our favourite Crabbe. It contains touches of very delicate sentiment, strokes of true pathos, and much nicely modulated verse. ... We shall hope to hear more of this young and promising writer." Examiner.

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Annesley is well contrived and well told. . . The verse is flowing, sufficiently varied, forcible, and animated by a sustained poetical spirit.' Spectator.

"The principal poem is short, and tells the work done and the affection gained, by a young and earnest rector in an English country parish; contrasting the superior usefulness and worth of a life spent in seeking the im