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A Library of History and Literature in English

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817

St Nicholas Scotches a Rumour

Three highly decorated officers in the Roman Army fall victim to a campaign to discredit them.

818

Recognition

Just as Richard Hannay was steeling himself to report failure in the hunt for a German agent, a stranger’s eye caught his own.

819

St Nicholas and the Unjust Judge

Trouble comes to the town of Myra when Imperial soldiers are despatched to put down a revolt.

820

Lost for Words

Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.

821

The Machinery of State

Human beings should not be frantic cogs spinning away in the Government’s factory of Progress.

822

A Confiscation of Property

Arthur Huntingdon discovers that his wife is planning to leave him, and take their little boy with her.