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Collins's Hide And Seen. * Wrrxre Comars Succeeds Better...

with the distant than the near. No one in an historical subject selects low or common life for a theme; probably because the Muse of History has not troubled herself about any......

Barter's Homer. * Mn. Barter, Who Wisely Gives No...

which he may be distinguished from others of his name, if haply such there be, has done what he calls translating Homer's Iliad into what he ' by a like audacious use of words,......

Wiese's German Letters On English Education. * Tile...

" instruction " and "education" has been more broadly marked of late years than it was formerly, yet it would be well if the broad difference were still more sepa- rated than it......