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The Life Of Isabella Bird.*

"On to be beyond the pale once more, out of civilisatioU into savagery ! Anna, I abhor civilisation !!' So spoke Mra. Bishop at the age of sixty, when she had returned from one......

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MEDIAEVAL LONDON. Mediaeval London. By Sir Walter Besant. Vol. II., "Eoelesi- astiold. - (A. and C. Black. 30s. net.)—Though this volume is described as "Ecclesiastical," nearly......