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Drake, Middletown. MASSACHUSETTS -Edward R. Rich, Boston-Geo. S. Wyllie, Ware Village -Geo. Ashworth, Lowell-John B. Goodnow, Charlestown. PENNSYLVANIA.-Colou & Adriance, Philadelphia-Wm. Fox, Pottsville— Alfred Craigh, Washington. KENTUCKY.-H. J. Brown, Lancaster-Wm. R. Walker, Cairo. CANADA-David Milligan, Montreal-J. H. Hardie, 30 John street, Quebec. CONNECTICUT.-Horatio N. Hawkins, Derby. TENNESSEE-W. H. Chaplain, Memphis. THE literature and national character of Spain is but indifferently understood by us. Spain was, down to the middle of the seventeenth century, the most splendid monarchy in Europe; and its national spirit was, to the last, developed in the literature and romances of its authors. Whether we examine its prose writers, or its poets, we find every where, the same spirit of private honor, principle, and national faith, breathing through the whole. In the noble beauty, and proud simplicity of the Cid, the sublime morality of Calderon, Gongora, and even that erratic wanderer, and criminally careless Lope de Vega, there are to be found some of the loftiest lessons of public trust and domestic honor that the literature of the world can afford. In this characteristic, the Spanish poets stand out in honorable exemption from the utter national faithlessness and private incontinency of all the Italian poets. All the poets of Spain are true hearted Spaniards -the plot and the execution, the fancy and the reality, the idea and the illustration-all are Spanish. There is a bewitching beauty, a sweet, never ending beauty in the Spanish poets. A clear, bright flame was in the souls of those old Spaniards, flashing out strange fire upon the earth-gleaming forever like the lightning of passion that plays around the hearts of men. Their poetry has not the pomp and pageantry, the deep, solemn funeral state of the Germans, it is most true; nor has it the wild, wrapt sublimity of the great English poets; but it has an excellence all its own-a Spanish excellencesoft, soft as the light of a star that beams there, in the Spanish sky. There is an enchantment in that Spanish poetry-something that sets the heart to beating. It has been called weak; but it is a sweet weakness-like the weakness of a woman, lovelier far for being so. But after all, the Spaniard is no weak soul. It is true that he never soars among the clouds, nor will he play with the thunder; but you will find him on the earth, among its best flowers-deaf to the storm, and reckless of vicissitudes there-a soul not to be dismayed. What |