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N Eu-judaism.*

IF the author of Judaism Surveyed be indeed, as he apparently claims to be, a representative of any considerable section of the Jewish people, it must be said that his......

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The Portfolio. September. (Seeloys.)-- The frontispiece of the Portfolio for this month is a fine etching of one of Gainsborough's very best portraits, "Orpin, Parish Clerk of......

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Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand who voted "Yes." From the French of MM. Erck- mann-Chatrian. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This is a tolerable, but not an excellent translation of......

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The Englishman's Illustrated Guide-book To The United...

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