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Books.

BACON'S WORKS, EDITED Dr SPEDDING, ELLIS, AND HEATH. * IT has long been generally known that a new edition of Lord Bacon's writings was in course of preparation under the joint......

Lorimer's Life Of Patrick Hamilton. * Boswell Was Right...

theory of biography. The "life" of a man without'a letter, or an anecdote, or some contemporary portrait of him with living traits distinctly marked, is not a life at all. We......