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Mr. Irving's Annals Of Our Time As A Careful And

successful attempt to put into a compendious and accessible shape what are often so difficult to get at,—the facts of contemporary history. Mr. Irving now carries on his work in......

Remarks On The Influence Of Mental Cultivation Upon...

Amariah Brigham, M.D. (Hatchard.)—This is a reprint from an American work which was published at Hartford in the United States rather more than forty years ago, and which then......

Oak, Edge: An Old-time Story. By J. Emerson Smith. (boston,

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German Poets And Their Times. A Series Of Memoirs And

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