16 JANUARY 1897, page 18

Deeds That Won The Empire.* It Is With Great Pleasure

that we welcome this admirable little book, and its short, clear sketches of some of the great deeds which made the Empire. There have been plenty of attempts to write the story......

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LETTERS OF A FRENCH COUNTRY VICAR.* ONE of the great charms of the best French literature is its simplicity,—a simplicity so lucid and naive that no translation can reproduce......