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    Burnley . No two names could be more fitly joined , together to form exemplary biographical

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    English , language is spoken . This book is ' Florence Nightingale , Frances Ridley Havergal , Catherine Marsh , Mrs . Ranyard ( " L .. N . R . " )/ by Lizzie Alldridge . The biographies from Miss

    Alldridge ' s pen are written simply , and with a considerable amount of sympathetic power . No young woman can fail to be benefited by a wise

    perusal of such a book .- — ' Handel , ' by Eliza Clarke , is a graceful piece of literary work . The productions of the greatest master of chorus can

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    especially suitable for the large section of the public engaged in railway travelling . The first of the series' As it was Written / by Sidney

    Iiuska , which , lies before us , is a Jewish story of the sensational order , as may readily be perceived when we say that the leading character or

    hero murders the girl he is engaged to , being in a species of mesmeric trance at the time , and under the supposed influence of his dead father ; but

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    dith ' s novels , new edition , ' Evan Harrington / I In the town of Lymport there was a tailor named I Harrington , who bad attained such a position

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    ' Breaking and Training Dogs / by * Pathfinder ' and Hugh Dalziel , has b *^ en called for . This workit will be rememberedives directions for

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1885, page 958, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101885/page/42/