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Novels Of The Week.*

Mits. ATHERTON is a novelist who certainly improves on acquaintance. There was abundant ability in Patience Sparhawk, but the general effect was impaired by a certain......

Vittorino Da Feltre, And Other Humanist Educators. By...

Woodward. (Cambridge University Press.)—Vittorino, surnamed da Feltre, from his birthplace in the Paduan territory, was not of the type which the mention of Italian scholars of......

Current Literature.

The new volume of the Dictionary of National Biography (Smith, Elder and Co., 15s. net.) takes us from Teach the pirate to Elizabeth 'Billet the poetess. Teach is worth reading......