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"Neglect not the reading of History, -m. Y 9 IT W" Tr for from it you will learn easily the % k. H f C All our hopes of the future depend experience ia ab co» ot ers J[ J[ $T\ " P ° n 3 S<>Und UnderStan<iing of the The Emperor Basil to his son Leo, K H f 3 3S ' ~ /I % ljv Fredtrick Harrison, . . WORLD 0^ (published this year in London by The Times) f° r the sale of which, at the introductory price and upon easy terms —only 7/6 a month— "" the subscription list was opened in New, Zealand on the 10th instant, makes claim to the reader's attention on two accounts. The "Historians' Eisiory of the World " makes a double the mind and exercise of the imagination, and tho practical lessons'of appeal, in that it performs a service unatlempted for 180 years personal and political conduct. 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