24 MAY 1890, page 23

A Life's Retribution. By Angus Macdonald. (remington And...

her "first printed attempt at novel-writing" on the part of the author of A Life's Retribution, must be set down among those works of fiction which had better not be written. It......

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The Bible True From The Beginning. By Edward Gough, B.a.

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