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The Private Secretary.* Tnis Is A Book In Which Merits

and defects are so mixed as almost to baffle any reviewer who, being by nature conscientious, wishes in utterance to be just. Were we to judge from its strong passages alone, we......

Jowett's Thitcydides.* Tuts Is In Some Respects One Of The

most unequal books that we have ever met with. It is an open secret that the-Regius Pro- fessor of Greek at Oxford is no Porson, and the first edition of his translation of......