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The Silver Cord.*
Mn. SHIRLEY BROOKS'S best works always leave behind them a feeling of regret. He could have done them so much better. There is a perfect lavishness of power in some of his......
Irish History And Irish Character.*
A SENSIBLE and impartial treatise on Ireland is a rarity in literary history, commanding attention if only on that ground. But Mr. Goldwin Smith is a writer of no ordinary......