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The Progress Of Nations. * This Is The Third Work On

"Progress," which has recently come under our notice. If speculation on national development were equivalent to a real advance, we should take this multiplication of books on......

Wise's Shakspere His Birthplace And Its Neighbourhood. *

Tins elegant little volume is something more than even an artis- tic guide-book. It is a critical biography of the one supreme poet of humanity ; written with skill,......