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Privateers And Privateering. By Commander E. P. Statham,...

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Nisbet's Gotf Year - Book. Edited By John L. Law. (james...

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Porfirio Dias. By Jose F. Godoy. (g. P. Putnam's Sons.

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Historical Essays. -by James Ford Rhodes. (macmillan And...

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Do Etymological Dictionary Of The English Language. By...

Walter W. Skeet. (Clarendon Press. 38s. net.)—This standard work, first published some twenty-nine years ago, now appears in a fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Professor......

The Shakespeare Birthplace Catalogue. (stratford - Upon...

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Recollections Of A Yorkshire Village. By J. S. Fletcher....

Long, and Co. 6s.)—We are always glad to hear what Mr. Fletcher has to say about things and people in Yorkshire. He goes back about forty years, and the picture which he gives......

Colour-blindness. By F. W. Edridge-green, M.d. (began...

Co. 5s.)—This book, one of the "International Scientific Series," has, we are glad to see, reached a second edition. Now and then we should counsel some reserve in accepting Dr.......

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