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Books.

CHRISTMAS'S CRADLE OF THE TWIN GIANTS. * BY the quaint title of" Twin Giants" Mr. Christmas means Science and History. The object of his book is - to examine them both in their......

History Of Peter The Cruel. * "the Portrait-painter Has...

to work upon," says Reynolds, "even though it may be of a commonplace kind." The remark may be applied by analogy to the historian, at least to the historian of a period......