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The Despots Of Islam

wielding despotic power ISLAM today is generally seen to present a severe and forbidding face to the world, while a great many regions where it pre- d ominates are in the grip......

One Hundred Years Ago

PROVIDENCE has been kind to the Queen. Her Jubilee Day, June 21st, has come and gone, and the most notewor- thy fact about it is that it was not spoiled, either by failure, by......