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Those Difficult Years

THE writers of what is called official biography are well aware that after a certain lapse of time, the " heavy " material which they have provided will be worked up by . some......

History As The Crow Flies

The American Ideal. By Arthur Bryant. (Longmans. Ma. BRYANT quotes an amusing letter of Walter Hines Page which illustrates the complacent ignorance of American history under......