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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......

Mr. Hardy's Wessex Stories.* Under This Name, Mr. Hardy Has

published, in two small volumes, a collection of five stories which he tells us on the title-page we may expect to find strange, lively, and common- place. Strange, and in a......