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Proofs And Morals

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No Persian Picnic

MR return to popularity of the travel-book has produced a spate of literature about most countries of the world and the once glamorous Persia has been well represented. Conse-......

Great Lives ?

TnEsE are two excellent additions to Messrs. Duckworth's series of 'Great Lives." Were either of them great lives, one is tempted to ask ? Byron's, perhaps ; Keats', certainly......