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Books.

PETER THE GREAT.* THESE two immense volumes, more than 1,300 pages octavo,. contain invaluable materials for the future biographer, but they hardly constitute a biography. Mr.......

Eleph.a_nt-driving And Tiger-shooting.* If This Book...

from the ordinary point of view, describing one deadly encounter after another, and dwelling with a sort of ferocious joy upon the large "bags" of big game it had been the......