4 NOVEMBER 1911, page 39

Things . . . Commonly Not Observed.* The Writings Of

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Death.*

IT is well that a book on death should be short: and this essay by M. Maeterlinck is hardly longer than an old-fashioned sermon. He has condensed into it many pleasant thoughts......