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The Lily Of Lombardy. By Helen H. Colvill. (melrose. 7s.

8d.)—Unlike most writers of historical romance, Miss Colvill, in attempting to reconstruct the domestic life of Milan in the sixteenth century, is too sparing of objective......

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