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The Life Of Seward.* There Is But One Adverse Criticism

we have to make on these volumes, and that is a criticism one is apt to make on American political biographies,—Mr. Bancroft has given us too much. Here are over eleven hundred......

Books.

THE GALLIC WAR.* IT may be said at once that Mr. Holmes's Conquest of Gaul is a' masterpiece of sound scholarship and historical apprecia- tion. No man ought to write Cmsar's......