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H. Taine's Life And Letters.f

THIS volume (representing two in the French original) completes a work of which instalments were given to the public in 1902 and 1904. It covers the last twenty-two years of......

Sir Algernon West's Recollections.* Perhaps The Most...

thirteen essays is the apologia for Lord Randolph Churchill. We have neither the right nor the wish to traverse its statements so far as they con- cern Sir Algernon's relations......

Fire, Air, Earth, And Water.*

THE old so-called elements of fire, air, earth, and water have long been relegated to the limbo of extinct theories. In their place we have the chemical elements, some eighty in......