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Poetry.

GREEK FIRE. A BYZANTINE BALLAD; The City of Constantine drew in her breath, For the realm of the . Ctesars lay sick unto death, And the panther of Islam stalked round the last......

Books.

THE COMIC SPIRIT IN GEORGE MEREDITH.* MEREDITH does not lack acute and sympathetic interpreters.. Mr. G. M. Trevelyan has brilliantly expounded his philosophy, and Mr. Richard......

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