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The Third Duke Of Gra.pton.* Tass Is A Dreary And

a tragic book ; but its dreariness and tragedy diminish in no sense its historical value. It is dreary because the Duke of Grafton, Premier in 1765, did not embellish his pages......

The Letters Of A French Priest.*

Lettres d'un Cure de Campagne and Lettres d'un Cure de Canton are practically two volumes of one book. The same priest is the hero of both, and he has the same Parisian lay- man......