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MAGAZINE.
Scribner's Magazine for January enters
upon its tenth year with several new de-
partments and most promising outlook
for interesting features. What most read
ers will first turn to is the long-expect-
ed serial by ]. NJ. Barrie, his only fiction
since the publication of THE Little Min
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prolific novelsts ii is unusual for one of
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icence exhibited by Mr.. Barrie A read
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but living in the East End of London
There is humor and pathos in every page
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reading world. A new portrait of Barrie
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