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Mr. Yates's New Story.* The First Half Of This Story

is nearly as good as the Black Sheep— by far the best of Mr. Yates's novels—but the second seems to us not only inferior to that, but to its author's less successful pro-......

Mr. Simcox's Poems.* It Seems Likely That The Present...

will do something to redress the extraordinary preponderance which Cambridge has had over Oxford in the number of poets whom the two have numbered among their alumni. It is......