New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-06
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handsome edition Of the late Frances Ridley
paverpals "Swss Letters and Alpine Poems IA
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inspired heI--S. W. Green's Son has D epared as
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eight inclu,le Romular John Halifax, " Jane
Eyre Hypatia" Corinne" Uarda," Last 81
the Mohicans" and "Tom Brown at Engny'
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Buchanan Reads poems has been puohsneu o' %
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n Jotbrop & Co. have brought ont in neat
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Wanderngs in South America" and Irving oiu
Christmas" and Bracebridge Hail. all ploiuse'
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The designs are better in intention imam III cAo
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These poems will be appreciated by those puzzled
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Nearer nv Cod to Thee" lie GlvetD his Dc
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ton,us's olives of The Twelve Caesars" Tho
translation has been revised and corrected and
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Legendary History of Rome" translated by u.
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TIL, same publisher has issued, IN Picturesque
Journeys in America" another specimen of the
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