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Chaucer And His England.*

APART from the supreme literary merits of the Canterbury Tales, their most conspicuous feature is the variety and con- vincingness of the characters portrayed. Each is typical......

The Diary Of A Georgian Sailor.*

COLONEL CHILDERS has done good service in editing and printing William Richardson's diary from the manuscript in the possession of his descendants. It is worth a dozen of the......

Later Years Of Catherine De' Medici.* Tars Is Certainly The

most striking book Miss Sidle' has yet written, and for more reasons than one will probably be the most successfuL Her art is becoming matured. In the earlier books her material......