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Books.

TWO FRENCH NOVELS.* La Neuvaine de Colette is one of the most delightful stories we have read for a long time. It is curiously different from the ordinary Prench novel, being......

The New Preface To "lux Mundi." *

WE have travelled a long way since the days of the so-called "Oxford declaration," when so many prelates and dignitaries of the Church signed a declaration that the Bible "not......

Mr. W. E. Henley As Critic.*

Tars is one of the most remarkable volumes of literary criti- cism—in more senses than one it is the most striking—that have appeared for a number of years. Mr. Henley has been......