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Sir, Kenelm Digby.* Sib Kenelm Digby Was Among The Least

effectual and most interesting men of his time. He played an officious part in love and science, politics and war, but he neither made dis- coveries, nor changed the complexion......

George Smith Of Coalville.*

THE biography before us tells the story of a man, born to poverty and hardship, who, as soon as he had won his own way to comfortable circumstances, gave himself up to the work......