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Christmas Books 2 History Not What It Was

JOEL HURSTFIELD In my last years at school I used to dream of going to a university to take a degree in English. I was awakened from this dream of academe by two harsh facts.......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator,' 11 December 1869 — The first Council of the Vatican, which is said by moderate critics to have been convoked in order that it may be not only the last as......