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Books.

MADAME NECKER.* l'sw of us can visit a great historical house, or even one of those smaller ancestral homes which are scattered not only over Eng- land but in the cities of......

The Peak In Darien.* When Miss Cobbe Took This Rather

fanciful title for her essays, she must, of course, have been thinking of the dose of Keats's _ * The Peak in Darien, with Some Other Inquiries touching Comma of the Soul ana......