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MEMOIR OF KITTY WILKINSON OF LIVERPOOL. Edited by Herbert R.

Rathbone, with a Foreword by the Rt. lion. T. I'. O'Connor. (II. Young, Liverpool. 2s. (hd.) - •- Biographies of the rich and influential are numerous ; this is the record of a saintly and sometimes starving woman who did great good in face of great adversity and inaugurated the now national system of public wash-houses. The whole of the proceeds of the sale of the book will be used to provide copies for distribution as prizes to girls in the primary and secondary schools of Liverpool.