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Books.

MR. MERIVALE'S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD.* WE must frankly say that this book is a great disappointment. Mr. Merivale, not to speak of his general reputation as a historian and......

The Speechmaker's Manual.*

SPEECHES, excepting only those of practised politicians, are, as a rule, bad ; indeed, we have little doubt that they were designed by Providence as trials of courage in the......