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Naval Accounts And Inventories. Edited By M. Oppenheim....

the Navy Records Society.)—The two manuscripts here printed, and giving naval accounts and inventories of the reign of Henry VII., 1485-88 and 1495-97, are known among the State......

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The Greek Epic. By George C. W. Warr....

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Ferrier, Edinburgh.)—This is the best brief biography of the founder of the Free Church which has been published, with the possible exception of the excellent monograph......