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It adds to these features a brililant con. —_‘Mustrated with twenty-eight full page photogracures, travelers seeking a guide, but ulve losraaien and delight to scectus of social and official life under the dual rule of King and a map, and nearly one hundred drawings in the tezt, _ those whos» fate It fs never to xe- the Eternal City except from Pope."—Nrwe York Herald. 4 great distance."—New York Tribune, JAPAN. HOME LIFE IN COLONIAL DAYS. By Mrs, Ilvon Fraser, Author of * Palladia,” ete. Nediom 8ro leautifully Mostrated. $6.00. Warrten py Atice Monee Eante. 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Adventures, both on land and sea, where Mr. Hamblen In this beautifully illustrated volume Mrs. Wright discourses familiariy upon the mammals of Nerth America. Her ts especially skilitul in his descriptions. It tsa boy's book, alm ts apparently twofold : first, to interest boys and xirls in the study of animal life; secund, to expluin the principes written as a boy Haes a beok—without sacrificing the and methods of sclentific classification. ‘To secure these ends, she adopts a method of her own. She writes » dramatic tory to the manner of its telling. story of the winter's entertainment of u family of boys and girls at a camp in the country.—New York Home Journul THE RANCHE ON THE OXHIDE, HEROES OF CHIVALRY. " ° By A.J. Cuunen, Author of The Story of the Mind," DOPE AND GIRLS: LUPE ON TEE PRONTO “Stortes from Greek Comedy.” “Stories from By Hesny Inatax, late Captain United States Army, Brevet Lieut.-Colonel, Author of “The Old Santa Fé Trail,” etc. English History.” ete. ete. 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