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"Of no modern writer can it be affirmed with less hesitation, that she has become an English classic; nor, until human nature becomes very different from what it now is, can we imagine the least probability that the music of her lays will cease to soothe the ear, or the beauty of her sentiment to charm the gentle heart.-Blackwood's Magazine. The following Works of Mrs HEMANS are sold separately, bound in cloth, gilt edges, RECORDS OF WOMAN. FOREST SANCTUARY. SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS. 48. each : DRAMATIC WORKS. TALES AND HISTORIC SCENES. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated into English Verse in the Spenserian Stanza. By PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY, M.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi College. Two Volumes, Crown Octavo, 18s. Poems and Translations. By P. S. Worsley, M.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Foolscap Octavo, 5s. Poetical Works of D. M. Moir (Delta). With Portrait, and Memoir by THOMAS AIRD. Second Edition. Two Volumes, Foolscap Octavo, 12s. 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