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Burke's Peerage, Bar Onetage, And Knightage. Edited By...

Burke. (Harrison and Sons. 42s.)—The preface to this, the sixty- seventh edition, is of more than usual interest. The editor points out that for the year just past no creation......

A Fit Of Happiness, And Other Essays. By Cecil Gray.

(Elliot Stock. 5s.)—This volume contains twenty-two essays which have appeared in the columns of the Spectator, and therefore cannot be commented on in these columns ; but......

" I Know The Ways Of Pleasure, The Sweet Strain, The

lullings and the relishes of it ; The propositions of hot blood and brain ; What mirth and music mean, what love and wit Have done these many hundred years and more." And second......