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Additional Interest From The Comparative Novelty Of The...

the scene is laid. "Good society" in Australia has doubtless much the same manners as good society here, still, there are differences which, where the subject is so familiar,......

Current Literature.

SCHOOL BOOKS. The Iliad of Homer. A Literal Prose Translation. By II. Hail- stone, M.A. (Johnson, Cambridge; Cornish and Sons, London)— " He tore much hair from the roots out......

Homer's Iliad, Book I The Troades Of Euripides. The Cedipus

Coloneus of Sophocles. By F. A. Paley, M.A. Cambridge Texts, with Notes. (Whittaker.)—The list of "Cambridge Texts with Notes," shows that Mr. Paley is the favourite exponent of......

Poetry.—legends Of The Heart. By Gerard Bendall. (w....

Bendall's " legends" show, on the whole, an advance both in taste and in his mastery of his art. The old story of "The Spectre Ship" is told again in "The Dutchman's Doom," with......