Sir William Temple, Who Served Charles Ii As Diplomatist And
counsellor, is best remembered as the patron of Swift and as the fortunate recipient of charming letters from his future wife, Dorothy Osborne. In his own day, and for long......
Coleridge As Poet Reigns Securely, But His Prose...
and often fragmentary, have fallen into neglect. It is interesting to find no less competent an authority than Professor J. H. Muirhead, in Coleridge as Philosopher (Allen and......
The Rising Generation, As Their Elders Often Forget, Know...
about the late War. To them, therefore, we would com- mend Sir William Beach Thomas's Events of the Great War in Megsrs. Routledge's sixpenny series of Introductions." In eighty......
Appropriately At The Time Of The Present Exhibition The...
Society has just issued an edition of the Rubcliyit of . Omar Khayyam, in Fitzgerald's rendering which is almost perfect in its kind. The covers are decorated with the design of......
Geoffrey Of Monmouth's Story Of King Arthur And His Knights
captivated all Western Europe when it appeared in the middle of the twelfth century, and supplied poets and prose- writers with material for generations to come. One somewhat......
Herr Walter Seckauer's The Books Of The Emperor Wu Ti
(Seeker, 6s.) was awarded the Jugend Prize, but we confess our inability to understand why. It seems to be a Chinese allegory (tediously distilled through the conduit of a......
Answers To Questions On Persian Art
1. The Moslem and pre-Moslem periods ; before and after 640 A.D. - 2..In the latter part-of the eleventh century.-3. From Darius' palace at Susa.-4. Rayy (Rhages).-5.......
The Competition
SUPPOSING your bookshelf came to life and you were able to invite six characters from English fiction to dine with you, which six would make the most interesting party and with......
We Welcome The Seven New Volumes Of The Loeb Classics
Library :— Bede : Opera Historica. (Vols. I and II.) Translated by J. E. King. Lysias. Translated by W. R. M. Lamb. St. Basil : The Letters. Translated by R. J. Deferrari......
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