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Books.

TENNYSON'S IDYLLS OF THE KING. * " ARTHUR is come again: he cannot die !" The Laureate has x insured to him the immortality which prophecy had made his due. ' That noblest ideal......

British Novelists. * Professor Masson Has Ascertained,...

the British Museum and from other sources, that in the year 1820, when the Waverley Novels were at the height of their popularity, there were,published in these islands......