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Short History of England and Dickens'
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Child's History of England may not be the greatest works in their department, but they may have the _greatest claims on the attention_ of one whose time or ability is limited. A chief need of every one is to know what others are thinking and feeling. To open up avenues of communication between mind and mind is one of the great objects of reading. Now it often happens that a book of no very high merit artistically considered--a book that can never take rank as a classic--becomes very famous, and is for a time the subject of much comment and conversation. In such cases all who would remain in thorough sympathy with their fellows must give the book at least a hasty reading, or in some way gain a knowledge of its contents. Intrinsically
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Robert Elsmere and
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Looking Backward