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Charles David Abbott

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Rossetti Incomplete

No one except the meticulous historian is interested to-Poor Splendid Wings. The Rosseitis and Their Circle. By Frances Win,war. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. The Wife of Rossctti. By Violet' Hunt. New York: E. P. Duttoi and Compa [...]

Honor Unto England’s Jane

Jane Austen's Letters to Her Sister Cassandra and Others. Collected and edited by R. W. Chapman. New York: The Oxford University Press. 2 vols. $12.50. Jane austen's letters have not been readily accessible in the recent past. Lord Brabourne's edi [...]

The Genial Philosopher

The Letters of David Hume. Edited by J. Y. T. Greig. New York: The Oxford University Press. 2 vols. $15.00. So seldom have philosophers been the associates of amiability that the man in the street is not much to be blamed when he considers them th [...]

The Woodforde Diary

The Diary of a Country Parson: The Reverend James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford. New York: The Oxford University Press. 5 vols. $4.25 each. This is an age of excavations and discoveries. Fragments of the past are being everywhere revivified; [...]

The Wizard Lives

The Life of Sir Walter Scott. By Stephen Gwynn. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. Scott and His Circle. By Donald Carswell. Garden, City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $3.00. The Life of Robert Bums. By Catherine Carswell, New York: Harcourt [...]