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William The Silent.* " Thou Shalt Get Kings, Though Thou

be none." Such should be the most fitting epitaph of the singular and self-devoted hero whose story is here retold to us in little with all Mr. Frederic Harrison's consummate......

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GARDINER'S "HISTORY OF THE COMMON- WEALTH." Mn. GARDINER belongs to that brilliant group of historians who were the pride of English literature in the " sixties " and......