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The Epic Of French Canada.*

PAnxmArr does not rank with the greatest historians of the nineteenth century ; he has not Macaulay's bold sweep, Froude's colour, the encyclopaedic knowledge of Ranke, nor......

Some Recent Scientific Books.*

IT is an extraordinary fact that any event of startling import- ance, any discovery which concentrates public interest in one particular direction in human knowledge, produces......