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French Parties, By An English Liberal.* Tins Book, We Are

told, was intended by the author as a com- plete history of the rival parties which have in turn ruled France for the last hundred years. But Mr. Macdonell did not live to carry......

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BISHOP WILBERFORCE.* Bmwor WILBERFORCE was a man of great powers, yet he could hardly, in the strict sense, be called a great man. He was en- dowed with a most watchful and......