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IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION IN PARTS AT ONE SHILLING

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Comprising books of valuable information and acknowledged merit, in a form adapted for reading while Travelling, and also of a character that will render them worthy of preservation.

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VOL. I. MACAULAY's ESSAYS on WARREN HASTINGS and LORD CLIVE

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XVI. OUR COAL FIELDS and OUR COAL PITS

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XVII. M'CULLOCH's LONDON and GIRONIERE's PHILIPPINES
XVIII. SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY and SOUTHEY's LOVE STORY
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LORD CARLISLE'S LECTURES and ADDRESSES

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XX. HOPE'S BIBLE in BRITTANY and CHASE in BRITTANY

XXI. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH and NATURAL HISTORY of CREATION, 2/6
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ATTIC PHILOSOPHER in PARIS

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XXVI. MACAULAY's ESSAYS on LORD BYRON and the COMIC DRAMATISTS and his SPEECHES on PARLIAMENTARY REFORM (1831-32)...

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XXVII. SHIRLEY BROOKS's RUSSIANS of the SOUTH and
DR. KEMP's INDICATIONS of INSTINCT
XXVIII. LANMAN'S ADVENTURES in the WILDS of NORTH AMERICA.

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