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The Growth Of The English Constitution.* Tim. Vast...

materials for history seems to make it every day more difficult to attain to largeness of survey. Any- one who begins to study a given period, however short, soon finds the task......

Unexplored Syria.*

WE must say that Captain Burton's literary industry, which is very great, would be more commendable were a portion of it expended in pruning and arranging his manuscript......