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Mr. And Mrs. S. C. Hall's Book Of 1.tie Thames.*

THERE is a peculiar attraction in descriptive topography whose source is not so obvious at first sight. There is little in it that the statist would call " information" ; not......

Badham's Life Of John Deacon Hume. The Distribution Of Fame

is a puzzle. "Reason frowns on war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name." Discoverer after discoverer fails or perishes, that the last and lucky adventurer......