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Gladstone And Ireland

BOOKS OF THE DAY By H. A. L. FISHER IN the disastrous eclipse of liberty now darkening the continent of Europe the name of Gladstone recovers some- thing of its original lustre.......

The Age Of Reform

OF the great importance of textbooks there can be no doubt. Their value has perhaps been exaggerated by H. G. Wells and others, but those which become popular exercise great......