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Books

• THE JESTER WITH A PURPOSE.* Hitherto the prefaces, if not the best part, have been as good as any part of the fare Mr. Shaw sets before us when he publishes a volume of plays.......

" The Bacchants Of Euripides." •

IN what is perhaps the most beautiful of his epigrams, the poet Ausonius addresses his old tutor, Nepotianus, as "lotentis agitator mete," and the happy phrase may be......

Sir William Butler.*

SIR WILLIAM BUTLER was all example of what might be Called the rebel mind. In this most interesting autobiography he proves that more surely (because undesignedly) than any......