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Leiai

Doctor Nerman Knapp,

from the author.

HISTORIC BUBBLES

BY

FREDERIC LEAKE,

The earth has bubbles as the water has,
And these are of them.-BANQUO.

Mais les ouvrages les plus courts
Sont toujours les meilleurs.-LA FONTAINE.

ALBANY, N. Y.:
RIGGS PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO.,

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LI-RARY

879244A

ASICR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1937 L

COPYRIGHT, 1896

BY

RIGGS PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE

Duke of Berwick, - - - - 7

Captivity of Babylon . . . . 45

The Second House of Burgundy, - 75

Two Jaquelines, ·

· 115

Hoche, - - - - - - 152

An Interesting Ancestor of Queen Victoria, 185

John Wiclif, •

- - - 201