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Books.

FINLAY'S HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL 'GREECE AND TREBIZOND. • THE decline of an empire, like the decline of life, is generally con- sidered an unfavourable subject for an author.Energy......

English Want Of Comfort.

COMFORT is an English word, but the idea which it conveys is relative one. English comfort is not French comfort; and when Frenchmen came to London, expecting to find large......

Tfttrt To T4t Chin.

THE PENELOPE'S WEB OF FRANCE. The Legislative Assembly of France is once more engaged in that strenuous idleness the very naming of which is provocative either of laugh- ter or......