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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1908, Page 7

THE HISTORIANS' HISTORY (>£ THE WORLD makes claim to the reader's attention on two accounts. The "Historians* History of the World" makes a double the mind and exercise of the in__gination,ai_d the praetkad lessoss of appeal, in that it performs a service unattempted for 130 years personal and political conduct. The attraction of history kso great ; in English literature, and this service the greatest that could be that no other encouragement towards its study is needed than the compassed by any book. opportunity of reading it. 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