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"THE SACRED GROVE."

A Weekly Magazine of Art, Philosophy, Science and
Belles Lettres.

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Have you a Nasty Taste in your Mouth?
It is Liver.
You need ONE Twenty-Three Pill.
(Just one.)
Not a Drug but a Live American Remedy.

CONTENTS. A Hitherto Unpublished Letter from Walter Pater. Charlotte Brontë's Maternal Great Aunt. A New Catholic History of England. The Genius of Shakespeare. Correspondence:—The Mendelian Hypothesis; The ⁠Split Infinitive; "Commence," or "Begin;" ⁠Claverhouse; Socialism and the Individual; The ⁠Dignity of Letters. Folk-lore Gossip. The Stage; the Paradox of Acting. Travel, Biography, Verse, Fiction, etc.

The Best Pill in the World for an Irregular Liver.

I suppose it is some lingering traces of the Bladesover tradition in me that makes this combination of letters and pills seem so incongruous, just as I suppose it is a lingering trace of Plutarch and my ineradicable boyish imagination that at bottom our State should be wise, sane and dignified, that makes me think a country