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Francis H. Abbot

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Sainte-Beuve

Sainte-Beuve. By Lewis Freeman Mott. New York: D. Appleton & Co. $5.00.Compared with the biography of a soldier, diplomat or adventurer, the story of Sainte-Beuve's life is at a disadvantage. It is the story of a mind rather than of events. Almos [...]

Rabelais in English

The Works of Francis Rabelais. Edited by Albert Jay Nock and Catherine R. Wilson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 2 vols. $15.00. That an educated person should read Rabelais would seem a proposition easy of acceptance. But in America [...]