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VOL. 216.

COMPRISING Nos. 430, 431,

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CONTENTS

OF

Nos. 427, 428, AND 429.

ART.

No. 427.-APRIL, 1911.

1. Co-operative Credit Societies and the Land

2. The Preservation of Fauna and Flora

3. Catherine de Médicis

4. The Exodus of our Art Treasures

5. The Letters of Erasmus

6. Coal-dust and Colliery Explosions

7. Oxford University Reform

8. The New Turkish Army and the Balance of Power in Europe.

9. A Great French Scholar: Léopold Delisle

10. Reciprocity between Canada and the United States

11. The Referendum in Operation .

12. The Declaration of London

13. Compulsory Service : Lord Roberts ». Lord Haldane

14. Lords and Commons

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No. 428.-JULY, 1911.

1. The Immunity of Private Property at Sea (II).

2. The Greek Anthology

3. British Investments Abroad

4. English Prosody

5. Primitive Man on his own Origin

6. An Elizabethan Gentlewoman.

7. Gothic and Renaissance Architecture

8. Lord Acton's Historical Work .

9. National Health Insurance

10. Irish Plays and Playwrights

11. The Strength and Weakness of the Triple Entente

12. The Imperial Conference,

13. The Duty of the Lords

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No. 429.-OCTOBER, 1911.

1. Ten Years of the Australian Commonwealth

2. Gil Blas

3. The Real Gambetta :
4. Terracina
5. The Making of Scotland.
6. The Growth of Mythological Study
7. British Diplomacy and Trade :
8. Submarines : Defensive and Offensive

9. The Poetry of William Morris.

10. The English Bible

11. English Church Law and Divorce

12. The National Insurance Bill

13. The Recent Strikes

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