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Vim Vi Repellens

THIS is a most interesting and authoritative book on modern Italy. We supposed by its modest title that Commendatore Villari knew his public in England, and we were confirmed in......

" Saki," Cynic And Sage

Wiso are the great humorists of the day ? Messrs. Wodehouse, Shaw, Jacobs, Wyndham Lewis—do any of them compare in brilliant lightness with the late H. H. Munro ? As Mr. Walpole......