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Books.

ISRAEL PUTNAM.* " THE blunt and sturdy Israel Putnam," as Parkman called him, was born, in spite of himself, to be the hero of romance. Devoid of imagination, endowed with a......

Germany From Clovis To William I.*

THIS American author, who is an old historical hand, has so shaped his title as to disarm criticism of one of its familiar weapons. If we complain of his off-hand assignment of......