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The Pageantry Of Lite.*

As an alternative or a complement to the contemplation of solid excellence, it is instructive at times to trace the meteoric course of coruscating futility. To approach this......

Novels Of The Week.* Students Of Recent Fiction Cannot Have

failed to notice how, as a set-off to the efforts of those who labour to diffuse more • (1.) The Brass Bottle. By F. Anstey. London : Smith, Elder, and Co. [Ss.] —(2.) The......

Joseph Glanvill.* Or Joseph Glanvill Mr. Lecky Has Said In

his History of Rationalism that he was "a divine, who in his own day was very famous, and who, I venture to think, has been surpassed in genius by few of his successors." The......