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Lima : Sketches Of The Capital Of Peru. By Manuel

A. Fuentes. (Triibner.)—The illustrations of this work are by far the most valuable part of it, but some of them are extremely good. The style of the letter-press savours of the......

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Collection Of All Tho Apocryphal Gospels, Prefaced By A...

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With The Old System Of Large And Nauseous Doses. He

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Plays And Poems. By Charles Waddie. Printed For Private...

tion. (Edinburgh : Neill and Co.)—As Mr. Waddle has sent us a copy of these plays and poems, we presume that he invites our criticism. We assure him that we have no wish to be......

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The Millennitan ; Or, The New Golden Age. A Lay

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