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The Life Of Robert Toombs.

The Life of Robert Toombs. By Ulrich Bonnell Phillips. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—Comparatively few readers in this country are well acquainted with the history of the......

Current Literature.

THE STORY OF A PAGE. The Story of a Page. By John L. Heaton. (Harper and Brothers. 10s. &I. net.)—The subject of this solid volume is not Thackeray's "pretty page with the......

The Briimis Of Baluchistan.•

WHAT do most Englishmen, or, for the matter of that, most Anglo-Indiana, know about the great mountainous tract to the north-west of Sind, which contains a full thirteenth of......

Guatemala.* In This Volume Mr. Doraville-fife, Who Has...

authoritatively on Brazil and the great States of South America, turns his attention to the Central States, including all those which once formed the old kingdom, and later the......