Pope
to his coadjutor Broome--of copies of Broome's replies--and of many
original letters from Fenton (Pope's other coadjutor in the Odyssey),
also addressed to Broome.

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LORD BROUGHAM gave notice some six months ago, of his intention to visit
the United States, during the present month of February, but if it is
true, as stated in the Liverpool _Albion_, that he has lost his sight
(partly in consequence of some painful bodily infirmity with which he
has some time been afflicted), he of course will not come.

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OF ALICE CAREY'S ballad entitled "Jessie Carol," printed in the last
number of the _International_, J. G. Whittier says, in the _Era_, that
"it has the rich tone and coloring and heart-reaching pathos and
tenderness of the fine old ballads of the early days of English
literature." Miss Carey is passing the winter in New-York, where a poem
by her is in press, which one of the most eminent and time-honored
literary men in America has declared to be, in all the best elements of
poetry, decidedly superior to any work yet published from the hand of a
woman.

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MRS. THERESE ADOLPHINE LOUISE ROBINSON, the wife of the distinguished
Professor and traveller, is best known in the literary world under the
name of _Talvi_, and is indisputably one of the most prominent of the
few profoundly learned and intellectual women of the age. She is the
daughter of the German savan, L. H. Jacob, who was long a Professor at
Halle, where she was born on the 26th of January, 1797. In 1806, her
father was called to a professorship at the Russian University of
Charkow. Here the family remained for five years, and the daughter,
though deprived of the advantages of a regular education, laid the
foundation of that acquaintance with the Slavonic languages and
literature, which she has since so profitably and honorably cultivated.
During this time she wrote her first poems, songs full of the girl's
longing for her German home, which the strange half Asiatic environment
of Southern Russia rendered by contrast only dearer and more attractive.
In 1811 her father was transferred to St. Petersburg, and there her
studies were necessarily confined to the modern languages. But her own
industry was intense and incessant; she devoted a great deal of time to
historical reading, and privately cultivated her poetic talent. Her mind
p