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The Cossacks.ByCount Tolstoy. Translated from the Russian byEugene Schuyler, Author of “Turkistan.” 2 vols.

The Hour will Come: a Tale of an Alpine Cloister. ByWilhelmine Von Hillern, Author of “The Vulture Maiden.” Translated from the German byClara Bell. 2 vols.

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Auld Lang Syne.By the Author of “The Wreck of the Grosvenor.” 2 vols.

Written on their Foreheads.ByR. H. Elliot. 2 vols.

On the Wolds.By the Rev.E. Gilliat, Author of “Asylum Christi.” 2 vols.

In a Rash Moment.ByJessie McLaren. 2 vols.

Old Charlton.ByBaden Pritchard. 3 vols.

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Nursery Playmates (Prince of).217 Coloured pictures for Children by eminent Artists. Folio, in coloured boards, 6s.

OCEAN to Ocean: Sandford Fleming’s Expedition through Canada in 1872.By the Rev.George M. Grant. With Illustrations. Revised and enlarged Edition, crown 8vo, cloth, 7s.6d.

Old-Fashioned Girl.SeeAlcott.

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On Trek in the Transvaal; or, Over Berg and Veldt in South Africa.ByH. A. Roche. Crown 8vo, cloth, 10s.6d.4th Edition.

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Phillips (L.)Dictionary of Biographical Reference.8vo, 1l.11s.6d.

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Photography (History and Handbook of).SeeTissandier.

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Placita Anglo-Normannica.The Procedure and Constitution of the Anglo-Norman Courts(William I.—Richard I.), as shown by Contemporaneous Records; all the Reports of the Litigation of the period, as recorded in the Chronicles and Histories of the time, being gleaned and literally transcribed. With Explanatory Notes, &c. ByM. M. Bigelow. Demy 8vo, cloth, 21s.

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Poganuc People: their Loves and Lives.By Mrs.Beecher Stowe. Crown 8vo, cloth, 10s.6d.

Polar Expeditions.SeeKoldewey,Markham,MacGahanandNares.

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Prisoner of War in Russia.SeeCoope.

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Rambaud (Alfred).History of Russia, from its Origin to the Year 1877.With Six Maps. Translated by Mrs.L. B. Lang. 2 vols. demy 8vo, cloth extra, 38s.

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“We will venture to prophecy that it will becomethework on the subject for readers in our part of Europe.... Mrs. Lang has done her work remarkably well.”—Athenæum.

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“The interest attaching at the present moment to all Britannia’s ‘little wars’ should render more than ever welcome such a detailed narrative of Maori campaigns as that contained in Lieut. Gudgeon’s ‘Experiences of New Zealand War.’”—Graphic.

Robinson (Phil.)See“In my Indian Garden.”

Rochefoucauld’s Reflections.Bayard Series, 2s.6d.

Rogers (S.)Pleasures of Memory.See“Choice Editions of Choice Books.” 2s.6d.

Rohlfs (Dr. G.)Adventures in Morocco, and Journeys through the Oases of Draa and Tafilet.By Dr.G. Rohlfs. Demy 8vo, Map, and Portrait of the Author, 12s.

Rose in Bloom.SeeAlcott.

Rose Library (The).Popular Literature of all countries. Each volume, 1s.; cloth, 2s.6d.Many of the Volumes are Illustrated—

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