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Passages In The Life Of Mrs. Margaret

MAITLAND. * THE leading aim of this book is to depict the more quiet and religious aspects of Scottish society as exhibited in its life between the cottar and the laird. The......

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......