The Review of Reviews. 



XXV. 



A REMARKABLE LETTER BOX 



LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE. 

 AVHY DO THEY WKITE ? 



\VHAT THE LETTERS SAY. 

 A ^WORIuD POST. 



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Earl of Rosebery, K.C. 

 Earl Curzon. 

 Viscount Haldane. 

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 Sir W. M. Ramsay, LL.D. 

 Rev. Dr. W. H. Fitchett. 

 Dr. A. R. Wallace, O.M. 



R.A. 



Sir Alexander Simpson, M.D. 



Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, LL.D. 



Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. 



Prof. Sir W. Barrett, F.R.S. 



Mr. Benjamin Kidd. 



Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, LL.D. 



Abbot Francis Casquet, D.D., O.S.B. 



Rev. C. Silvester Horne, M.A. 



Professor L. P. Jacks, M.A. 



EARL OF ROSEBERY. 



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Sir W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, LL.D. 

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Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE. 



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