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Smiles' Lives Of Boulton And Watt.*

THE tragic element is seldom absent in the lives of great inven- tors and discoverers, but it stands out with more than usual pro- minence in the story of the invention of the......

The Cypresses.*

THE predecessors of the Cypresses had already gone, for us, into the semi-oblivion that is the common lot of all but a few out of the crowd of novels—individually more or less......