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This 1919 collection of essays is a republication of the 1913 volume, Clio, A Muse, with the addition of four new essays: "The Two Carlyles," "Englishmen and Italians," "The News of Ramillies," and "The Hegira of Rousseau." Contents also includes "If Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo" and "The Muse of History."
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