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Verse And History.*

"UNHAPPILY in most English schools there is no serious attempt to teach nineteenth-century history?' These words occur in Professor C. H. Firth's new anthology, English History......

Books.

A DEFENCE OF THE SOUL.* THE reader of this remarkable book will not readily discover- its character from its title. The word "animism," borrowed. from Tylor's Primitive Culture,......