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The War-ships Of Europe.*

WE often hear it said, in these days of great armies and of con- tinuous improvements in military organisation, that Europe has been turned into a vast camp. From a perusal of......

The House Of Clarisford.*

THE struggle of the human will against the power of some inherited doom has at all times been a favourite theme of tragedy - and romance. In darker ages, the belief in prophecy......

Current Literature.

The Wise Alen of Greece, in a Series of Dramatic Dialogues. By John Stuart Blackie. (Macmillan.)—" I have attempted," says Pro- fessor Blackie, in his preface, " to give the......