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Reticence In Literature.

T HE passion for detailed information about every con- spicuous person must be energetic in mankind to con- sume the piles of biography which are annually heaped up for it,—fuel......

A Quest For An Unknown Land.

E NGLISH explorers are seldom reticent as to the motives which impel them to adventure, or as to the objects which they have in view. From the days of Hakluyt they have been a......