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Books.

FRANCE AND THE ALLIANCES.* EVERY student of French politics must have noticed that in the last year or two—we might say since the Algeciras Conference, to give an exact date—the......

The Author Of " Hudibra.s."

SAMUEL BUTLER—" a man," as Dr. Johnson says, "whose name can only perish with his language "—is one of the obscurest figures in English literature. Not only are the......