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The Capital Of The Tycoon.* Tax Capital Of The Tycoon

has but one fault—intolerable verbosity. Sir Rutherford. Alcock, British Minister in Japan for five years, probably knows both the country and its capital better than any living......

The Worldly Wisdom Of Bacon.*

• THE meanness of Bacon, spoken of in the bitterest line of one of the bitterest poets, contrasts so strangely with the elevation of Bacon's genius, that even they who cannot......