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Daniel Defoe. By Francis Watson. (Long- mans. 10s. 6d.) How Defoe ever found time to write, seeing all that he did, or how he found a moment in which to do anything, seeing what......
It Is Twenty-five Years Since This Book Was Written In
this country and published in the United States. In the meantime Blake has been accepted in his entirety, yet probably remains unread except as a lyricist. But even here he......
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King Edward's School, Dow 400 Years Old, Is Unusual In
several ways. It is outstanding academically ; it is associated with a notable girls' school and a number of flourishing grammar schools, and it has remained a day-school......
Words Are Fickle In Their Attachments, And The Word "
ballad " has grown elusive of definition. Technically speaking, because it is sung to music, the sentimental " ballad" of the Palm Court has more claim to the name than Scott's......
The Goad Of Love. An Unpublished Trans- Lation Of The
Stimulus Amoris by Walter Hilton. (Faber. 18s.) THERE is no doubt a small but growing public to whom the reading of the mystics brings satisfactions that they do not derive from......
Volume Vi Of The Oxford Junior Encyclo- Paedia, Which Is
called Farming and Fisheries (O.U.P. 30s.), is in every way as excellent as its predecessors. One—an adult as well as a child one—could hardly fail to find pleasure and profit......
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