The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-12-03

BEST Lincoln Stories Tersely Told" is the ii.
tie of charming little volume which contains
some Of the brightest and best stories and sayings
OF tbs great emancipation. James E, Gallagher a
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Todd's New Astronomy. By David Todd, M.
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900 pages. Illustrated. Price $3.50. American
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Tor practical and scientific text book IN this i'm
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The Atlantic continues to devote its politi-
cal comments to the immediate and vital
problems confronting the nation; and the De-
papers upon the question of dependencies and
their management. Benjamin Kidd, the dis
tinguished English sociologist and critic,
to American literature which he has made
during his recent tour in this country, en-
titled" The United States and the Control of
the Tropics in which he maintains that the
tropics must be developed by their own labor,
managed by Northerners.
The Students Manual Of Physics. FOR The
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A Brief German Grammar. By Hjalmer Edgren
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the basis Of o systematic knowledge OF its gram
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md practical, and AIMS to give the beginner an
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earliest possible moment.
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Stories Of Ohio, by William Dean Howells.
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Cincinnati and Chicago. In simple language
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"A Song Of, Thanksgiving, by w. L. Tay-
Tor. the frontispiece 6f the November Our
Little Ones and the Nursery, is an exqui-
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sion on the face Of the mother and the cher
ubic; countenance, of the children who are
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