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The First British Empire

Building the British Empire. Vol. I. By James Truslow Adams. (Scribners. 15s.) IT is no easy task—me teste, who have tried it—to compress into two volumes the total achievement......

The Irish Republican

Theobald Wolfe Tone : A Biographical Study. By Frank MacDermot. (Macmillan. r5s.) OF all the national leaders in Irish history one might have expected that Daniel O'Connell......