Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-29

The Battle Of the S~ssh. or the Capture
Of Cznada; by Samuel Barton This treats
the Canals question annexation, the fisher
les and other international questions IN q
style somewhat ike that Of the Battle Of
Dorking thoa9e wanting its originality and
force. II purports 70 have been sritten in
the year 1890. View York Charlie. T. Dill
lingham; paper eovers. I3l pages; price %
cts
The young people ~iIl ali be glad that. al
though Mr.. J. T. TroTbridge has gone
abroad, he published another ne story jus.
before he sailed This is entitled "Bidinz
His Time, " and is the secOnG Of the start
10 Life Series.- the hrst Of which vas no.
tlced by Us onlya few weeks ago. We are
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boy who vent West; il is, on the other hand,
the story Of az Ohio boy who came ~ Nassa
chusett. ~ hnd his fortune, and all the par
uealars are given n thoroughly interesting
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Of this popular author. The volume will
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IL is we'll printed, bound in an attractive
manner, and embellished with ten or dozen
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six novels and closing with bibliography
There Is portrait Of Miss Austen. and i've
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BY Mr.. Alfred +. Baisdeu. Il opens With a
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liit Of his works. Successive chapters give
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Characteristic Passages, and the concluding
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from SCOTS writings. portrait Of Sir
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the several chapters. The binding j..
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Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson j..
one Of the most finished essayists which our
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10 the leading magazines, and Of which the +
following are the subjects "Old Salem Sea- (
captains "A Revolutionary Congressman
on Horseback" "A New England Vaga 7
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3 Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner's Insurrec-
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