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Chapter 83 THE BOOKCASE AT HOME
Chapter 84 GOLDSMITH
Chapter 85 CERVANTES
Chapter 86 IRVING
Chapter 87 FIRST FICTION AND DRAMA
Chapter 88 LONGFELLOW'S "SPANISH STUDENT"
Chapter 89 SCOTT
Chapter 90 LIGHTER FANCIES
Chapter 91 POPE
Chapter 92 VARIOUS PREFERENCES
Chapter 93 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Chapter 94 OSSIAN
Chapter 95 SHAKESPEARE
Chapter 96 IK MARVEL
Chapter 97 DICKENS
Chapter 98 WORDSWORTH, LOWELL, CHAUCER
Chapter 99 MACAULAY.
Chapter 100 CRITICS AND REVIEWS.
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Chapter 40 No.40

How strange is life, how sad and perplexing its contradictions! Why should such an exhibition as that be supposed to give pleasure? Perhaps it does not give pleasure, but is only a necessary fulfilment of one of the many delusions we are in with regard to each other in this bewildering world. They are of all sorts and degrees, these delusions, and

            
            

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