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Hood's verse, whether serious or comic--whether serene like a
cloudless autumn evening or sparkling with puns like a frosty
January midnight with stars--was ever pregnant with materials for
the thought. Like every author distinguished for true comic humor,
there was a deep vein of melancholy pathos running through his
mirth, and even when his sun shone brightly its light seemed often
reflected as if only over the rim of a cloud.
Well may we say, in the words of Tennyson, "Would he could have
stayed with us," for never could it be more truly recorded of any
one--in the words of Hamlet characterizing Yorick--that "he was a
fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." D.M. Moir.
THE ILIAD OF HOMER RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE. By EDWARD, EARL OF
DERBY. From the latest London edition, with all the author's last
revisions and corrections, and with a Biographical Sketch of Lord Derby,
by R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, D.C.L. With twelve steel engravings from
Flaxman's celebrated designs. 2 vols., 12mo. Cloth, extra, bev. boards,
gilt top, $3.50; half calf, gilt, marbled edges, $7.00; half Turkey
morocco, gilt top, $7.00.
The same. Popular edition. Two vols. in one. 12mo. Cloth, extra, $1.
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