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The Stillwater Tragedy. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich....

who have made acquaintance with the charming Queen of Sheba who gave her name to a charming little volume by Mr. Aldrich, the present work will be a disappointment. The rage for......

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SOME years have elapsed since we had a novel by Miss Pollard before us ; but the quality of those stories which preceded the present by so wide an interval abides in our......

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