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England And The British Empire.•

Ma. ARTHUR LNNEB has written some good historical text- books, and has proved himself a well-equipped modern student of history. In the present work he has attempted the task of......

Poverty And Waste.l. •

NOB.ALISTS may contemn the economics of Poverty and Waste, and cold economists may resent the moralizing. But, as a matter of fact, ethics and economics react upon each other so......

Ancient India.*

TIME was, and not a very distant time, when historians of ancient India were content to say that the Indian races of old days " lacked the historical instinct," and left behind......

Fiction.

DR. ASHFORD AND HIS NEIGHBOURS.• THERE must be many sedulous novel-readers who find it a little difficult in these agitated days to distract their attentions from the real to an......