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BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS NUMBER
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Robert Louis Stevenson will contribute
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He will write OF many topics, old and
new, and in a familiar and personal way,
which will form new bonds of friendship
between the author and his thousands Of
readers. In the first paper, entitled "A
Chapter on Dreams" appearing in the
January number, he relates incidentally,
in connection with the general subject,
some interesting facts concerning the orr
gin of the now famous story "Strange
Case of DIR. Jekyll and Mr.. hyde"
Railway Accidents, by w. S. Chaplain,
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DIR. ID. A. Sargents papers on Physical
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