archives of the Roman church. Nearly all this material is new 
to the English language. The notes are detailed enough to make 
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Boston Evening Transcript. As we read these extracts from the letters of 
Petrarca, and the scholarly notes that accompany them, we are con- 
vinced that, whatever the opinion of the papal court, Petrarca was a 
great statesman. 
American Poems. Selected and Edited with Illustrative and Ex- 
planatory Notes and a Bibliography. By Walter C. Bronson, 
Litt.D., Professor of English Literature in Brown University. 
680 pages, 12mo, cloth; $1.50, postpaid $1.68 
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entire period of our history. For the teacher as well as the 
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the book will have the wide popularity of Professor Bronson’s 
earlier collection, English Poems, which has been adopted by 
all leading American colleges. 
The Dial. The resources of the special collections of Brown University 
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American poetry. 
The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties. Studies in Constitu- 
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