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Another Lost Leader

distinct kinds. There arc, firstly, those poems in which the defects of modern society appear to have induced an attitude of pessimism or indifference ; secondly, those in which......

Cardinal Ximenes

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A Great Novel

" ONE of the world's masterpieces of fiction " is a stale phrase, but it must be used of Lermontoff's single novel, published in 1840, the year before his death, at the age of......