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A. Comic Life Of The Ex-emperor.*

WE gather from the preface that the publisher had a some- what original idea in intermixing the two distinct parts of this book. He tells us that "after he had looked over what......

Gibson's Conquest Of Ireland.*

THERE is a curious mixture of the apologetic and complacent tone in Mr. Gibson's prefatory description of his "attempt to write history in the attractive form of Historical......