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Spain In The Twentieth Century.*

FIFTEEN years have passed since Spain seemed permanently crippled by the Spanish-American war ; yet, as always in time of peace, she has made slow but steady progress, and that......

A Cowley Father On Hinduism.*

Ix is not easy to give a brief yet adequate account of so multifarious a book as this. Many of its chapters deal, pleasantly enough, with topics so trite as mosquitoes, cobras,......

Society, Politics, And Diplomacy In 1820-1864.*

IN the preface to these "Passages from the Journal of Francis W. H. Cavendish," the editor (we are not told his name) is so anxious not to give the reader the impression that he......