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Dagger And Jewel

Life of Benvenuto Ceffini. Translated by H. H. Hobart Cost. (The Navarre Society. 2 vols. 21s.) IN the year 1500 the Republic of Florence was aglow with artistic activity.......

Letters Of Madame De Sevigne

• age of French Literature, is information to no one. But • perhaps it might be said without offence that a great part of %the present reading public has not read the famous......

Fashions Past And Present

-Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century. Translated by M. Edwardes from the German a Dr. Oskar Fische' and . Max von Boehn. Revised and enlarged edition. Four volumes. :......