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HISTORICAL PARALLELS.--Two Directories. The French
_Directoire_ was a short-lived stopgap of not unmixed
benefit to France, but our English Directory, yclept
KELLY'S, for 1890, directorily, or indirectorily,
supplies all our wants, comes always "as a boon and a
blessing to men," and is within a decade of becoming a
hale and hearty centenarian. _Vivat_ KELLY!
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