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Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of. Lord Randolph Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
Lord Rosebery, tho a political opponent yet from the point of view of intimacy and affection presents a reminiscence and a study rather than a life of Lord Churchill. He sets this “brilliant half-success” in the field of high politics, reveals the qualities that made for mastery and also those that marred a brilliant career. There are side lights thrown upon such men as Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Parnell, and others.
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