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Is °eire's Con Versa Tion S. * These Conversations Present A

distinct and truthful image of Goethe's mind during the last ten veers of his life. Its most cha- racteristic feature then as throughout life, was that " repose of power " which......

Phillips's Ciiiiban And His Floontemporitillawl'

THERE is a fashion in wit and humOUVAnd even in oratory, as well as in lesser matters. Walpole relktes that when a certain lord, who passed for a wit and hunioxist,an4us,......