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Local Government In Germany And France.* According As His...

are pessimistically or optimistically inclined, Sir Robert Morier's admirable little book will suggest a series of very different reflections. The pessimists will feel drawn to......

Recent Novels.*

THE title of Mr. William Black's latest story will carry the mind of many a middle-aged reader back to the time—surely some twenty years ago—when one of his prime literary......