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Marriage Of True Minds

THE Brownings have long been buried under their legend. Even in their lifetime it billowed about them like an outsize cloak, puzzling a few and irritating a few others. To the......

Unsensational Revelations

Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott's Residence in Italy, 1832. By Sir William Gell. Edited with Notes by James C. Corson. (Nelson, 10s. 6d.) SIR William Gell, the topographical......

Thou Art Pierpoint

By DONAT O'DONNELL HE enemy,* one immediately asks, of what? I Mr. Wagner's whole book constitutes both an answer and a justification of the subtitle he has chosen. In......