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The Noble Science.* Of The Numberless Books That Have Been

written on the delightful and eternally fresh subject of fox-hunting some are humorous and others serious. Mr. Cuthbert Bradley, whom many of us know as " Whipster," and Captain......

M. Legouis On French Poetry.*

THIS attractive little book contains four lectures which were given before the University of London, and repeated at Oxford, in the summer of 1911. Among French critics there is......

Sir David Barbour On The Standard Of Value.*

NEARLY twenty years ago Sir David Barbour took a very active part in the bimetallic controversy, and, although he recognizes that that controversy is now as dead as a door-nail,......

Fiction.

SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN.t STEPHEN LEACOCK, in a delightful autobiographical preface to his new volume, tells us that many of his friends are under the erroneous......