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The United States : An Historical Sketch. By E. A.

beruans. ‘Cam- The Skilled Hand bridge University Press. s 6d. VICTORIAN households of the climbing middle-class sort used to stress the " hand-painted " character of their......

Growing Up

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Fiction

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