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Books.

SIR ROBERT PEEL. * THE memoir of the great reforming statesman which has been drawn up by an admiring relative, is less a biography than a dis- quisition. In fact it corresponds......

Memorials Of Thomas Hood. * Tin: Children Of Thomas Hood...

wisely chosen to make him as much as possible his own biographer, the means at their disposal for that purpose being not inconsiderable in quantity, and very precious in kind.......