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The minuteness of detail into which Mr. Douglas enters must make his work an authority for the future. Regarded simply as literature, it will not take so high a place; but that is a very small matter for those whose chief craving is for the facts of history, not for the flowers of rhetoric. "The Race of Dunbar" is, however, very well described. The romantically pathetic tale is told in a more lifelike manuer than, so far as we remember, it has ever been told before. The pages describing the causes of the quarrel between Independent England and Presbyterian Scotland are also excellent. There have been those who have presumed to air their views on this subject who failed to see anything beyond mere ambition in Cromwell and those he led. Persons who hold foolish notions of this sort might, it is possible, be benefited by a study of what Mr. Douglas has to tell; but then they are just the kind of folk who cherish ignorance too fondly to be willing to have it dissipated.

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