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Two Editions Of Thackeray.* It Is Not Difficult To Decide

which is the better of the two editions of Thackeray which are now nearing completion. The first place must certainly be given to Lady Ritchie's edition, which is described by......

The Seventeenth Century In France.* This Book Is An...

and fairly successful attempt at a. difficult end—that of reconstructing the manners of a century. The difficulties of so wide a plan seem almost unconquerable when we consider......

The Napoleon Of The South.'

WHEN Captain Cook reached New Zealand he found it occu- pied by a very superior race of savages living apart under an elaborate tribal system. Though communists in their......