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Aristocrats Of The Garden By E. H. Wilson

The name of E. H. Wilson stands very high in the list of great nineteenth- century gardeners. Wilson was, how- ever, as the index to this volume (Williams and Norgate. xis.)......

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This delightful little book (University of California Press : Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 7s.)-, consists of a journal kept by one Joseph LeConte, a Professor of Chemistry of......

The Varieties Of Religious Experience By William James

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