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Fiction.

THE LURE OF ROMANCE.* ME. PREVOST BATTERSBY'S equipment as a writer of adven- turous fiction places him in a strong position es against the shafts of the stay-at-home critic. He......

A Wanderer In His Youth.* Db. Pumut Begins At The

beginning. The opening chapter of his Memories of My Youth is concerned with four years, 1844-1848, and as regards the first of them he pleads with justice that, as it was also......

The Teaching Of Eloquence.*

Iat this country the study of rhetoric, once the keystone of our educational system, has practically disappeared. It survives, indeed, like a rudimentary organ, in the programme......