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    as Richard Cobden . declared that he at least reduction would never of ' the consent national to any expenditure scheme for which the

    would at all affect the famous Corps . General as Porter the scope shows of very the clearly work achieved the character by the as Royal well

    Engineers in connection with the telegraph systems Works in of India Asia and in the the Bound Department Commission of Public

    in America , the , purvey of Palestine ary , and the Explorations at Jerusalem , and in other and

    have not less been important the iixst to directions summon . the The most , Engineers recent

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    . boo writer ks of is which that has , been notwith Napoleon the standing subject I ., as thev an there ' . historical countless is yelT

    room personage materials for , furnished an account by of himself . him . derived , Among fron the \ j s

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    From Messrs . Swan . Sonnenschein & Oo . ~ ; * Darwinism and Politics' by D . VG . Ritchie

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    practical « sting and top thoug ic . We htful are consideration not exactly at of ^ one a witii g hl ^ less

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    -production September 1888 in Paris - ; ) that , from is , ; September the real dramatic 1887 to opening year , the of period the theatres whidh ! to elapses that aL from their closing the re- ; '

    The volume also contains notices of a few new p The ieces book brought comprises out during hly the speaking interregnum about . '

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    jou footli rnalist hts . expresses ' . The indexes it , * under make the this blaze series of the of not nnt . ir ices . fis g a handy hAndv book hook of of reterence reference tor for the the year vearl

    guiding the names us , of I . the ToN writers the names III of . the To the plays names ; , II . To of , ; the lay ¦ - ¦

    pers . ... « :. ^ From the same . — Oarte de la repartition et de of Templacement des troupes / & c . This is a map

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1889, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031889/page/27/