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The Diaries Of Mrs. Powys.*

THERE is a fascination in ancient diaries and letters which we vainly seek in more pompously intentioned literature. The very artlessness of words which never expected to get......

Mr. Saintsbury On Matthew Arnold.* This Work, The First Of

a new series, is in most respects carefully written, and with many of the judgments we find ourselves in agreement, yet it does not present to us any adequate portrait of......