...o long. The heroic age of literature is past, and even a duodecimo may often prove too heavy (oi(=on nu=n bro/toi) for the descendants of men to whom the folio was a pastime. But what does Mr. Masson mean by continuous? To me it seems rather as if his somewhat rambling history of the seventeenth century were interrupted now and then by an unexpected apparition of Milton, who, like Paul Pry, jus...