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The papers on 'The Early Years of the Conqueror of Quebec,' 'AWirepuller of Kings,' 'A True Captain of Industry' and 'Early Years ofAbraham Lincoln' can hardly pretend to be more than accounts of books towhich they relate, but they interested some of their readers at the timeand there are probably not many copies of the books in Canada. All thepapers have been revised, so that they do not appear here exactly asthey were in the periodicals from which they are reprinted.
TORONTO, Feb. 16, 1881
THE GREATNESS OF THE ROMANS (Contemporary Review)
THE GREATNESS OF ENGLAND (Contemporary Review.)
THE GREAT DUEL OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (Canadian Monthly)
THE LAMPS OF FICTION (A Speech on the Centenary of the Birth of Sir
Walter Scott)
THE ASCENT OF MAN (Macmillan's Magazine.)
THE PROPOSED SUBSTITUTES FOR RELIGION (Macmillan's Magazine.)
THE LABOUR MOVEMENT (Canadian Monthly.)
WHAT IS CULPABLE LUXURY? (Canadian Monthly.)
A TRUE CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY (Canadian Monthly.)
A WIREPULLER OF KINGS (Canadian Monthly.)
THE EARLY YEARS OF THE CONQUEROR OF QUEBEC (Toronto Nation.)
FALKLAND AND THE PURITANS (Contemporary Review.)
THE EARLY YEARS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Toronto Mail)
ALFREDUS REX FUNDATOR (Canadian Monthly)
THE LAST REPUBLICANS OF ROME (MacMillan's Magazine)
AUSTEN LEIGH'S MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN (New York Nation)
PATTISON'S MILTON (New York Nation)
CLERIDGE'S LIFE OF KEBLE (New York Nation)
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. This combination was thetalisman of her august fortunes. But the three things, though blended inher, are distinct from each other, and the political analyst is calledupon to give a separate account of each. By what agency was this State,out of all the States of Italy, out of all the States of the world,elected to a triple pre-eminence, and to the imperial supremacy ofwhich, it was the foundation? By what agency was Rome chosen as thefound