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  • The Hamlets of the Stage: Part I
    June 1869 Issue
  • The Hamlets of the Stage: Part Ii
    August 1869 Issue
  • Elizabethan Psychology
    Edward DowdenSeptember 1907 Issue
  • Logan Pearsall Smith
    Cyril ConnollyJune 1946 Issue
  • Glorious John
    Anthony BurgessNovember 1987 Issue
  • Notes on the History of Fiction

    Who would give up the Iliad for the “real” historical record?

    E. L. DoctorowFiction 2006 Issue
  • Books of the Month
    April 1887 Issue
  • The Contributors' Column
    C. C. Thackray, L. Emilie Pearsall, Miriam E. Carey, Everett P. Wheeler, and Paulina Cony DrownJuly 1923 Issue
  • Service to Two Titans
    John M. ConlyJanuary 1960 Issue
  • Richard Henry Dana
    Julius H. WardApril 1879 Issue
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