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    n42 The Publishers' Circular .Oct-n, i«s...

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    and * Scotland , ' by James Macintosh , LL . D . # # #

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    Miss Agnes Stevens has compiled the book , and Mr . Fisher Unwin will publish it .

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    Messrs . Hodder & Stoughton . #

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    ' Epochs of American History . ' The first deals with < The Colonies—1492-1763 ' and

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    taken to prepare it . Messrs . , Longmans , ; Green & Co . will publish an English edition .

    * # # ! Mr . W . H . Hurlbert , author of ' Ireland

    ¦ under under Coercion Coercion , ' has has written written a a volume vnlnmfi on nn ' France and Her Republic : a Record of Things —— - »•¦¦ " —•¦ f ) ^ " ^ r Seen "»— ' ^ -r ' — ' -s ^ . a . and h'W 1 K 1 . >_>* k Heard b » «¦ - ^^ ¦« ¦»» Jfc - >>^ Tto in •>** the V * 4 b ^ . aT Centennial - "W ^ f A J S > * b" ^ S . sV . & AA J > 4 > V &

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1889, page 1142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101889/page/8/