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versal knowledge, with maps and wood en-
cravings. Revised edition of 1888, to be COM
pleted in ten volumes, issued at intervals.
Price per volume: Cloth, 50; sheep 81 half
leather, 81 so. Published under the auspices
of j. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia.
The people of this country are quite gen
orally acquainted with this work 1t was
begun in 1859 and completed in 1868, and
has, therefore been before the world about
twenty years. 1t is favorite source of in
formation, both in this country and Europe.
During these twenty years. how ever work
on the Encyclopedia has been continued.
1t has been thoroughly revised, enlarged,
and all the latest information within its field
added to 1t. But the publishers found that
this system of revising and altering could
rot be carried on indefinitely, and
SO resolved on an entirely new
edition, the first volume of which
has been issued. The information
given may be characterized as non-profes-
slonal, embracing those points of the sew
eral subjects which every intelligent man
or woman may have occasion to speak or
think about At the same time every effort
is made that the statements, so far as they
go, shall be precise and scientifically accu-
rate. One great aim in the arrangement of
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sultation. 1t is expressly dictionary in
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lses, and, on the other, from set of dictiOn-
aries of special branches of knowledge. To
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fact, the various masses of systematic
knowledge have been broken up, as it were,
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separate explanation of the several frag-
ments. Throughout the articles, however,
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other heads with which they stand
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position OF the science or branch of knOwl-
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ical maps. The illustrations, department
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MARGARET REGIS, and Some Other Girls. By
Annie H. Ryder. Boston: d. Lothrop Com
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A multitude of readers all over the coun-
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through her last years book, which made
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THE New YAcHTsMAN's GUIDE. Universal Refer
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This is a love romance of continuous in
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READINGS AND REGULATIONS No. z. Edited by
Miss L. Penney. Published by National Tenn
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This little work is full of bright, spark
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MAGAZINES
The April number of the Century closes
the thirty-ffth half-yearly volume. The
first article is by Edward l.. Wilson, the
well-lnown photographer, and is descrip..
tive of the natural and other features OF