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Poets The Interpreters Of Their Age.* If The English...

had a word for the emotion at the opposite pole to "disappointment," we should cer- tainly use it to describe the impression left upon the mind by Miss Anna Swanwick's book,......

Italian Society In The Eighteenth Century.*

THESE extracts from Mrs. Piozzi's Journey furnish a some- what striking contrast to the greater part of English literature devoted to Italy. The architectural glories of the......