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Books.

—4— FRA PAOLO.* A LIFE of Sarpi is a desideratum in English literature. Not only was his career a distinguished one in an age replete with great men and great careers, but the......

Mr. Yates's New Story.* The First Half Of This Story

is nearly as good as the Black Sheep— by far the best of Mr. Yates's novels—but the second seems to us not only inferior to that, but to its author's less successful pro-......