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Cambridge Essays. * In Point Of Literary Ability, The...

of " Essays" by members of the University of Cambridge is equal to the first. The topics on which it is exercised, and often the treatment itself, have not the living interest......

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established cha- racter or of some literary pretensions an external appearance of so attractive a kind as at once to fit them for a drawingroom orna- ment, or a memorial of......