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A Remarkably Lucid And Interesting Account Of Three Cen-...

of travel is given by Dr. J. Bartlet Brebner, of Columbia University, in The Explorers of North America (Black, 18s.). He begins with Columbus, and deals successively with the......

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A Quaker Journal (vol. 2. 1843-1861) Edited By G. E.

Bryant and G. P. Baker The first volume of this interesting personal record, the Diary and Reminiscences of William Lucas of Hitchin, covering the years from 1804 to 1843, has......

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The Life Of Sir Robert Jones

By Frederic Watson The modern biographer treads a difficult path. If he refuses to indulge in the precarious feats of the pseudo-Stracheys, who, like trick-cyclists, have had......