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THE NEW DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.* Ws: receive with most cordial welcome—a welcome, it is true, not unmixed with anxiety—the first volume of Mr. Leslie Stephen's......

The Wish To Believe.*

WE bave once or twice called attention to the earlier of these dialogues at the time they first appeared in the Nineteenth Century. The second of the two is, however, much......