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Pencraft.*

Ma. WATSON'S plea for good workmanship in literature, and especially in verse, is a spirited little essay in which certain modem idols are soundly berated. A reference to "the......

Reconstruction.t

Ir is generally as well to meet the cynic or pessimist half-way and concede the right of sarcasm or depreciation at our expense whichever way things turn out. Here is an......

New Volumes In The "loeb Library."*

TRESS new volumes of the " Loeb Library " arc all of first-rate interest. First among them, from the point of view of the general reader, one must undoubtedly place that which......

Fiction.

THE SPRING SONG.t MORE than half of Mr. Forrest Reid's story is a pure delight : the rest makes for what we are old-fashioned enough to think unnecessary sadness. It is not that......