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Poetry And Prose. N Ot A Few Readers Will Recall Macaulay's

celebrated dis- cussion as to the possibility of producing great poetry in an elaborate state of civilisation. Poetry, he almost avers, is possible only under a semi-barbarous......

Irish Wit And Humour.

I RELAND to a great extent still preserves its national reputation for wit and humour. To utter clever and amusing things without premeditation is more or less common to......