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The Purple School Of Fiction.*

Mae PnEscorr is a clever writer, but she belongs to—perhaps we ought to say she leads—the school of what we may be called purple transcendentalism in American fiction—purple......

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THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.* "Think not that 'tis some common Mercury; No, my good friend, 'tis Scopas' work you see." Tars epigram, translated by Wellesley in his Anthologia, and......