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VIRGIL IN THE MIDDLE AGES.* THE younger Pliny tells us that Silius Italicus was wont ft visit the tomb of Virgil near Naples, as if it were a temple. Silins, whose birth was......

Mr. Gosse's Literary Portraits.* " We Are Familiar," The...

writes, " with pure criticism and pure biography, but what I have here tried to produce is a combination of the two, the life illustrated by the work, the work relieved by the......