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Emerson, And Other Essays.* Emerson's Is A Very Great Name

in what we may perhaps call the obscure school of letters. It would be quite as idle • Emorson, and other Essays. By John Jay Chapman. London: David Nutt. to ignore the......

Recent Novels.*

WE had long ago given up Mr. George Gissing as an in- corrigible pessimist, but the unexpected has happened, and in The Town Traveller he has not only given us a story with a......