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Two Frenchmen On Shakespeare

Letters Concerning the English Nation. By Voltaire. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. (Peter Davies. 16s. net.) A Literary History of the English People. By J. J.......

The Wide World Over

Travel and Adventure The once busy quays of New Bedford now lie deserted by the bluff-bowed craft that used them so long ; the whaling-fleets, thirty sail strong, which used to......

Testimony Of The Mighty One

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