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Tile Story Of Three Sisters. By Cecil Maxwell. 2 Vols.

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This is a novel of no common merit. Each of the three sisters is an excellent study of character ; Pamela, whom we may call the heroine par excellence,......

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I Street's Indian And Colonial Mercantile Directory. (g....

Directory has been immensely improved, and is now of great value to every one engaged in Asiatic or Colonial trade, and every one who has to correspond with a business man in......

Maude Whitefoord ; Or, The Turn Of The Tide. 3

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