Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-15

l.. BREMER;, Life, Letters and Posthumous Works
lircmcr. Translated from the Swedish by Frcda Mi
luw. In one vol, crown SvO. Cloth, 81
I'VE haye quoted much from this charming volume
that we have no room for further quotations, but it is
book to be read Examiner, LOj,dOH.
''rhe double biography is delightful, chiefly because
shows Fredrka in the bosom of her family from
icst childhood and may be said history
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iree RON any tendency TO sensaionalsm and though
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iyl09a Nsip York Tribune