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    dragoon Dumouriez during . It is the a story starring of lover days and of

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    natural fiction . The illustrations ^ are as graphic as any that , have

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    that » given it is the result of the author » ne ' s personal observations in the fieldspi

    tion the British of forei Islands gn birds . For ' Mr the ; : Sharpe '" descri . p is - '

    largely indebted to I the writings of Mr . Henry Seebohm . and . that . 'debt

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    volume are birds more common on the continent of Europe than in the

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    zeal . Nothing could be better in works of this kind than the poetic

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1888, page 1528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121888/page/34/