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Books.

CONFERENCES ON BOOKS AND MEN.* This book opens with a discussion upon that word of many meanings, "gentleman." The author is set upon his train of thought by a stray remark,......

Three Volumes Of Verse.* Mr. A. C. Benson In His

poem of "The Professor" has used the form of "Maud," one eminently convenient for a mono- logue with many changes of mood. The " Professor " is, we suppose, a physiologist. (He......