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No. 172.
AUGUST 16, 1893.
Vol. XV.
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Breach of Idiom. F. H.
The Use and Abuse of Slang. Pitts Duffield.
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Doyle's The Refugees.—Crawford's Pietro Ghisleri.—Emily Hoppin's From Out of the Past.—Miss Elliott's John Paget.—Miss MeClelland's Broadoaks.—Miss Bell's The Love Affairs of an Old Maid.—Mrs. Catherwood's Old Kaskaskia.—Bangs's Toppleton's Client.—Kipling's Many Inventions.—Matthews's The Story of a Story.—Mrs. Deland's Mr. Tommy Dove.—Sullivan's Day and Night Stories.
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A new text-book of Biology.—Interpretations of Tennyson's Idylls of the King.—Lurid pictures of modern city life.—A new edition of Juvenal's Satires.—The seventh part of the "Great English Dictionary."—French dominion in the Valley of the Mississippi.—Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution.—The Establishment of the Anglican Church in America.
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