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Ninety years ago a small part of the Ninth Earl of North- umberland's Advice to his Son, now edited by Mr. G. B. Harrison (Henn, 8s. 6d.), was published in the journal of a......
The Etruscans Still Remain A People Of Mystery, And Not
all the learning and imagination of Miss M. A. Johnstone can tell us who they were, whether they were aliens or of the soil, Lydians (as Herodotus would have it, to the scandal......
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