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e suffered permanently from this attack. The general public, especially the republic of womankind, forms its own opinion, and pays slight attention to literary criticisms of that description. Holmes's poetry rarely rises to eloquence, but neither does it descend to sentimentality. It resembles the man's own life, in which there were no bold endeavors, great feats, or desperate struggles; but it was a life so judicious, healthful and highly intellectual that we cannot help admiring it. Dorothy Q. is perhaps the best of his short poems, as it is the most widely known. The name itself is slightly humorous, but it is a perfect work of art, and the line, Soft and low is a maiden's Yes, has the beautiful hush of a sanctuary in it. A finer verse could not be written. Also for a comic piece nothing equal to The wonderful one-hoss Shay has appeared since Burns's Tam O'Shanter. It is based on a logical illusion which brings it down to recent times; and the gravity with which the