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BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, E.C.

CONTENTS.

I. The Study of Familiar Letters as an Aid to History
and Biography. By SAMUEL DAVEY, F.R.S.L. .
II. Influence of Chaucer upon the Language and
Literature of England. By Dr. PHENÉ, LL.D.,
F.S.A., V.P.R.S.L., F.R.G.S., F.R.I.B.A., Fellow
of the Antiquarian Society of Athens, Corre-
sponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of
New York, etc.

III. Ramayana: the Odyssey of Ancient India. By
Professor ROMESH DUTT, C.I.E., F.R.S.L.,
Barrister-at-Law, Lecturer on Indian History,
University College, London

IV. The Poet Cowper and his Surroundings. By
WILLIAM BOLTON, F.R.S.L.

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133

V. Primal Instinct and Culture in Art. By PHILIP
H. NEWMAN, R.B.A., Member of Council, R.S.L. 165
VI. Etienne Dolet, the Martyr of the Renaissance. By
WILLIAM E. A. AXON, F.R.S.L., Hon. LL.D.,
Wilberforce University

VII. The Machinery of the Rape of the Lock:' Pope,
Villars, and Borri. By WILLIAM E. A. AXON,
F.R.S.L., LL.D.

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VIII. John Keats. By OSCAR BROWNING, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer on History.

239

IX. The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. By
SAMUEL DAVEY, F.R.S.L.

265

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