The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-12-07

Days and Ways and to make the
book complete, w. Parker Bodfsh has
contributed sixty.two capital homestead
drawings.
Carrie A. Cooke, in Blossoms by The
Way presents collection of poetry
for young folks, which, with its dainty
binding, its artistic colored border de-
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tents, is sure to please the boys and
girls of ten and over. Its seven hun
dred pages are frightened by many fine
engravings, and the selection of the
subjects has been most happy. (4to,
decorated cover, gilt edges, S3.OO) N
Under the title of Ideal Poems, are
presented twelve poems, selected from
those which are the acknowledged
masterpieces in the English Language.
Celebrated artists have prepared for
each u beautiful full page drawing, and
the result, showing the. highest excel
lence in poetry, engraving, painting
and binding, jnstities the publishers
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son..
e. 4. Browns Life Of Oliver Ven
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lustrated, Sl50.)
Who Told IL to Me, IL Margaret
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Decorative Plaques, in which the
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