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Tuberculosis..

PASTEUR, when his now students asked him what book they ought to road as a guide, used to say to them: " I advise you to road my Studies of the DiSOBSOS of Silkworms." And we......

Johnson And Pope.•

Da. JOHNSON'S Life of Pope is almost a model biography of a poet, and on that ground alone a new edition is to be welcomed. The tendency of modern " Lives '' is to be far too......

Books.

A FRENCHMAN'S MESSAGE.• Terse notes and letters written at the front by a young Parisian artist, who lies since disappeared and is probably dead, are etrange and beautiful......