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The Nation’s AwakeningBy SPENSER WILKINSONCrown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
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At all Booksellers and Bookstalls.NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION,REVISED AND BROUGHT UP TO DATE,WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON THE LATEWAR IN THE EAST.Problems of the Far EastJapan—Corea—ChinaBY THERt. Hon. GEORGE N. CURZON, M.P.With numerous Illustrations and Maps. Extra Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.
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English Illustration. “The Sixties”: 1855-70.ByGleeson White.Price £2 2s. net.
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The Selected Poems ofGeorge Meredith.Crown 8vo. 6s.New Poems. ByFrancis Thompson.Fcap.8vo., 6s. net.
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CONSTABLE’SHand Atlas of IndiaA New Seriesof Sixty Maps and Plansprepared from Ordnance and other Surveysunder the direction ofJ. G. BARTHOLOMEW, F.R.G.S.,F.R.S.E., &c.In half morocco, or full bound cloth, gilt top, 14s.
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