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A Soldier's Book Of Love Poems.* The Effect Of The

war on literature has been most marked. We may say with perfect truth of the. Army what Dr. Johnson said of Pembroke College. " It is a nest of singing birds." Not all the......

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GENERAL SMUTS.* WE hail the presence of General Smuts in England as one of the many signs that the Allies hold the winning cards against the Germans. That one who was in arms......

Russian Composers Of To-day And Yesterday.*

Mn. ItIoxmou-NATIA.N's volume is a welcome addition to the already considerable and steadily accumulating library of English works— expository and critical—which deal with......