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The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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Poet and Poacher

Literary rumour in the time of Queen Anne said that William Shakespeare owed his extraordinary career to a scurrilous ballad.

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The Rests in Life’s Melody

A benevolent lecturer has to persuade a class of restless girls to stay inside on a rainy day.

729

Will Adams

An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.

730

Kim and the Art of Begging

A street urchin of Lahore takes it on himself to provide a naive Tibetan monk with a hot meal.

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The Assassination of Thomas Becket

Four knights thought they were helping their King, but they could not have made a greater mistake.

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Abel Tasman in New Zealand

The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.