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The Gossip Of A Jotjrnalist.* As A Writer Of Light

newspaper gossip, the late Mortimer Collins was in some respects eminently successful. His egotism, his cheerfulness, his appreciation of fine literature, his familiar style,......

Mr. Boulger's History Of China.*

ALTHOI:Gil many books have been written on China since Les Letlres Edifiantes of the Jesuit Fathers, and the compilation by Pere du Halde furnished to the Western world a......