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Books.

TFIE POPE AS A POET.* ildarrr verses, the sweetest things in the world," so said on o ne occasion Archbishop Benson, and so would have said five- sn a.twenty years ago half the......

Bret Harte's Last Burlesques.*

IT is difficult for a middle-aged reader to approach this collec- tion in the attitude of detachment needed for their thorough enjoyment. He inevitably applies the comparative......