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Two Rascals And A Dupe

Moan than thirty years ago Mr. H. B. Irving attempted a eulogy, which was also some sort of an apologia, for Judge Jeffreys. It was no good. Not all the ingenious whitewash in......

Vae Victorianis

The Eighteen-Seventies. Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society THE Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature enjoyed them- selves recently in reconsidering the England of the......