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. Mr. Secretary Walsiugham,and the . Policy of Queen Elizabeth, by

Conyers Read (Clarendon Press), is a complete and detailed

study, in three volumes, of the second greatest of Elizabeth's ministers. It is written, however, in a decent and attractive

style : the treatise will be invaluable to historians, and Interesting to men of leisure or to the insatiable general .teader."