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    a new edition , , but a re-writing of this interesting book which had already made its reputation ; and I the added chapters give some clever sketches of

    the surrounding country , its buildings , and associations . Few cities probably have ever been more faithfully pictured or more effectively

    illustrated than the beautiful Florentine capital , and the plates with which these volumes abound add much to their interest . Among the pictures

    are a set of sketches of the arms of the municipality and shields of the distinguished families of the city .

    I From Mr . William Stevens . — ' The Family Herald / Volume LII . Although our popular

    contemporary has reached the goodly number of fifty-two volumes , it possesses the attribute of the year whose weeks it numbersfor it no sooner

    completes one cycle than it begins , another ; and with its next issue we can predict that it will not have lost its freshnefs and attractirenesa .

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    the preface , were delivered by Mr . Ottley to his former parishioners at Ilkley , in Yorkshire , and they not onlafford much informationas to the

    ancient Nile y country and its present , position , I but they also throw considerable light upon the Bible narrative . The volume has many

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 2, 1884, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02061884/page/12/