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is increasing by leaps and bounds. When we contrast our present historical knowledge with that of, say, fifty years ago, we are struck with the mighty difference. We can speak......

Border History And Poetry.*

VOLTAIRE said, "Pity the man who tries to say everything." This is the peculiar temptation of a man who has made a particu- lar study of an engrossing subject. He presumes on an......