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Oliver Cromwell, by Horace G. Groser. (S.S.U., Is.), is a

volume in the "Splendid Lives Series." The writer holds, or at least seeks to hold, the balance with an even hand. He admires his hero greatly, and, indeed, the hero is worthy of admira- tion. But he does not contend for his faultlessness. That he was the one strong man who knew how to rule the country, and that he was absolutely sincere, is what most of us believe, though we may differ about the right and wrong of this or that proceeding.