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Books.

THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.* MR. FREEMAN has now reached the central point in his history, the actual Conquest of England. The means by which William settled himself firmly......

An Optimistic Realist.* Ir Is Now Some Years Since, In

criticizing a book of Mr. Gilbert's, we used as the aptest epithet to signalize certain salient charac- teristics of his work the term Defoe-like. This assuredly expressed......