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The Mystery Of Suffering. By The Rev. Baring-gould....

the six lectures which make up this little volume, the author endeavours to show that suffering would seem to be a necessary condi- tion for the development of the highest life......

Dr. Tuke On The Prevention Of Insanity.*

THOSE who have read Dr. D. H. Tuke's former work, on the influence of the Mind on the Body, will welcome this more popular treatise, on insanity and its Prevention. That a......

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