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Literary Pamphlets.*

WRITING on "the origin and importance of small tracts and' fugitive pieces," Dr. Johnson makes the following remark :— "There is perhaps no Nation in which it is so necessary as......

Books.

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.* IN The War of the Worlds Mr. Wells has achieved a very notable success in that special field of fiction which he has chosen for the exercise of his very......