the Thackeray circle, and there is a curious portrait of Coleridge, not
very thinly veiled. There is enough autobiography, too, of interest in
its way."--Leslie Stephen.
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"Lord Randolph Churchill's pages are full of diversified adventures and
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_LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND ASSYRIA._ By G. Maspero, late Director of
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reader."--_London Times._
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