frankly expresses his regret for such of his errors as he now sees, and is not ashamed to be ashamed of certain offences (like that which won him a very unpleasant nickname) against good taste and good breeding, which the imperfect civilization of Southern politicians formerly tempted them to commit. Remoteness from the currents of modern thought--such as life in a region so isolated as the South has always been involves--will account for much cast-off allusion in his book to Greece and Rome, as well as that inflation of style generally characteristic of Southern literature. _Poems in Sunshine and Firelight._ By JOHN JAMES PIATT. Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll & Co. 1866. Among the best poems of the earlier days of the Atlantic was Mr. Piatt's "Morning Street," which we think some of our readers may remember even at this remote period, after so much immortality in all walks of literature has flourished and passed away. Mr. Piatt later published a littl
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