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Wellington Prize Essays.* Six Essays, Written By Officers...

the competitors of Lieutenant Maurice for the Wellington Prize, have been pub- * Essays Written /be' the Wellington Prise, and selected for Publication by his Grace Desire from......

Bret Harte's Stories Of The Sierra.*

is none of Bret Harte's stories, whether in prose or verse, are the characteristics of his genius more striking than in these of the Sierras. Strange incidents of the wildest......