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Shorter Notices

Paracelsus : Selected Writings. Edited AMONG the most radical achievements of the school of Jung has been to alter the intelli- gent man's view of the science of alchemy, for so......

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minds of operatic connbisseurs with one part, that of Melisande, which she created. Of the other French and Italian operas that were her particular pro- vince—Massenet's Thais,......

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