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Democracy And Empire.* In This Book Professor Hearnshaw...

some lectures which he delivered before the Royal Colonial Institute and elsewhere. They are a deeply interesting study of the problems which a democracy has to face when it is......

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THE VELVET TOUCH.• Is any man in our time has " the velvet touch " it is Mr. Max Beerbohm. By a happy judgment such as is instinctive in certain minds, he has applied this gift......