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George Villiers, First Duke Of Buckingham.*

ROMANTIC historical biographies are the fashion, and it must be confessed that scholars and critics are apt to treat them with a certain scorn not quite always undeserved. At......

The Transitory Nature Of Matter.*

EVERY thoughtful man, be he gifted with a turn for scientific inquiry or not, must be deeply interested in the modern views of the relation between ether, matter, and energy,......

The Political History Of England.*

PROFESSOR MONTAGUE set himself a difficult task when he undertook to write the volume dealing with the first sixty years of the seventeenth century in this very valuable, but......