... a little towards the general suc- cess. Dramas in verse, are not, to quote a cynicalfriend, like lords, as common as blackberries. M. Richepin is a naturalistic poet, young in years and of the new school: a poet, in fact, whose verses have hitherto ...

... everything he says must be takea in good humour and in good truth. Transpontine authors were in my time as plentiful as blackberries, and almost as cheap; and I never,-as one of them, got upon an average a 5 note, until Mr Barrett gave me about six times ...