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A Re There Really Any Children To Whom The Slang Adjective

" smart " could possibly apply ? It certainly applies in all its disagreeable significance to the children in Mr. E. IL Cooper's new book, " The Twentieth- Century Child " (John......

" T He First Creature Of God, In The Works Of

the days," wrote Bacon, " was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit." The passage occurs......