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“In at least half of these stories Mr. Wells is seen at his best.”
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“‘Twelve stories and a dream’ will not lower Mr. Wells’ reputation as an imaginative writer, which his previous volumes probably did.”
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Welsh, Charles, ed. See Famous battles of the Nineteenth century.
Wendell, Barrett. Temper of the 17th century in English literature. [**]$1.50. Scribner.
“Prof. Barrett Wendell, of the English department at Harvard university, has gathered his lectures on English literature, delivered on the Clark foundation at Trinity college, Cambridge (1902-‘03), into a volume.... These are the first regular lectures concerning English literature ever given by an American at an English university. Together, they are practically a literary study of the age of Dryden. The purpose in these lectures was, he declares, to indicate the manner in which the national temper of England, as revealed in seventeenth-century literature, ‘changed from a temper ancestrally common to modern England, and to modern America, and became, before the century closed, something which later time must recognize as distinctly, specifically, English.”—R. of Rs.
“Prof. Wendell is always interesting, whether we agree with him or not, and the Clark lectures ... have much good matter in them, with perhaps as much that is by no means so good.”