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Alchemy.*

• The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy. By C. J. 0. Thompson. London The Scientific Press, THE search for the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life fascinated......

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THE EVERSLEY BIBLE.* MAciciat's object, briefly put, is to present the Bible to the English reader in a form exactly the same as that which he is accustomed to see in the......

Love Affairs Of Some Famous Men.*

SURELY Mr. Hardy claims a little too much for his work when he says : " Our brother, the ox, and our sister, the cow, are good enough to consume cartloads of grass and hay and......