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The current Proofread of the Month is A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories  (1926) by Montague Rhodes James. Last month completed: A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand The next scheduled collaboration will begin in January.

1. Index:Dictionary of National Biography volume 01.djvu
2. Index:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 1.djvu (The Life of Jonathan Swift)
3. Index:Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.djvu
4. Index:Popular Science Monthly Volume 19.djvu (805pp)

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  Recollections of Full Years by Helen Herron Taft
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  The Heart of Jainism by Alice Margaret Sinclair Stevenson
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  The Silent Prince by Hattie Arnold Clark
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  A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet by Sarat Chandra Das
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  The Tower by William Butler Yeats
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  Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Hester Lucy Stanhope
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  The Story of the Flute by Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon
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  The Art of Kissing by Clement Wood
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  Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock
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  Napoleon by T. P. O'Connor
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  The Doom of the Great City by William Delisle Hay
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  The Ocean and Its Wonders by R. M. Ballantyne
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  The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge
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  Kutenai Tales by Franz Boas & Alexander Francis Chamberlain
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  A History of Japanese Colour-Prints by Woldemar von Seidlitz
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  The Torrent and the Night Before by Edwin Arlington Robinson
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  Women of the West by Max Binheim
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  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926) by Anita Loos
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  Appeal to the Wealthy of the Land by Mathew Carey
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  Attainder of Treason and Confiscation of the Property of Rebels by William Dexter Wilson
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  Remarks on the British Quarantine Laws by Charles Maclean
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  A Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
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  Studies in Lowland Scots by James Colville
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  Weird Tales/Volume 1/Issue 1
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  The Aquarium (Gosse) by Philip Henry Gosse
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  A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country by Matilda Betham
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  The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga (tr. Hopman)
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  War and Peace (Tolstoy) by Leo Tolstoy (tr. Maude)
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  The Hittites by Archibald Henry Sayce
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  Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg
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  Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot
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  A History of Wood-Engraving by George E. Woodberry
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  William Blake in his relation to Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Johanna Christina Emerentia Bassalik-de Vries
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  Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy (Westinghouse Electric)
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  Unlawful Marriage by J. J. Janeway
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  A Treatise on Medical Astrology by F. R. White
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  Evisceration by Arthur Edward Prince
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  Fur and the Fur Trade by M. M. Backus
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  The Art of Modeling Flowers in Wax by George Worgan
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  On the Application of Sewage in Agriculture by Edward Haughton
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  Description of the Abattoirs of Paris by Richard Boxall Grantham
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  A Short Account of the Botany of Poole by Thomas Bell Salter
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  A Contribution to the Pathology of Phlegmasia Dolens by Robert Lee
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  The Real Cause of the High Price of Gold Bullion by Edward Cooke
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  A Few Plain Observations Upon the End and Means of Political Reform (anonymous)
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  Hand-book on cheese making by George E. Newell
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  The Plattner Story and Others by H. G. Wells
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  An Elementary Treatise on Optics by Henry Coddington
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  Floating City (1904) by Jules Verne
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  Biographia Hibernica by Richard Ryan
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  Guy Mannering by Walter Scott
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  The Present State of Peru by Joseph Skinner
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  Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
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  Poems by "Cushag" by Margaret Letitia Josephine Kermode
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  One of Ours by Willa Cather
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  The Theory and Practice of Handwriting by John Jackson
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  Japanese Wood Engravings by William Edwin Anderson
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  The Examination and Confession of certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex by Hermann Beigel
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  Old Castles by Mary Smith
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  Principles Involved in the Preservation of Fish by Salt by Harden Franklin Taylor
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  Violin Varnish and How to Make It by Georges Foucher
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  The History of Ink by Thaddeus Davids
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  In Bad Company, and other Stories by Rolf Boldrewood
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  Tales of To-day and Other Days
  French short stories
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  Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles Larcom Graves
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  The War and the Future (Masefield, 1918) by John Masefield
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  Weird Tales Vol. 31, No 2.
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  Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Revised Edition, 1831) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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  Natural History, Fishes by Philip Henry Gosse
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  Natural History, Reptiles by Philip Henry Gosse
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  The Sikhs by John James Hood Gordon
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  Siberia and the Exile System by George Kennan
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  A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton
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  Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain edited by James Kennedy
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  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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  Cyclopedia of Painting by George D. Armstrong
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  Cras credemus: A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Potato by James Torbitt
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  The Sclavonic Provinces of the Ottoman Empire by William Ewart Gladstone
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  The Milestones and the Old Post Road by George W. Nash and Author:Hopper Striker Mott
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  The Language of the Eye by Joseph Turnley
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  The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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  A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby
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  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
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  My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) by Frederick Douglass
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  The Melanesians: Studies in their Anthropology and Folklore by Robert Henry Codrington
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  The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe by Lynn Thorndike
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  The Maine Woods (1864) by Henry David Thoreau
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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Ingram, 5th ed.) by John Henry Ingram
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  The Earliest Lives of Dante (Smith 1901) translated by James Robinson Smith
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  Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books by Annie Russell Marble
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  The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire by Thomas Wallace Knox
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  Savage Island by Basil Home Thomson
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  The Tourist's Maritime Provinces by Ruth Kedzie Wood
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  The Book of Scottish Song edited by Alexander Whitelaw
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  Women Wanted by Mabel Potter Daggett
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  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressall
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  Paper and Its Uses by Edward A. Dawe
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  The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago by Pearson Hill & Rowland Hill
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  Church Seats and Kneeling Boards by William Butterfield
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  A Treatise on Soap-Making by John Carmichael
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  True Stories of Girl Heroines by Evelyn Everett-Green
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  A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington by Walter Clinton Jackson
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  The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
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  My Life and Loves by Frank Harris
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  Plutarch's Moralia (Holland) by Author:Plutarch
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  The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox
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  The Fauna of British India: Birds Vol. 1 by Edward Charles Stuart Baker
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  How to Keep Bees by Anna Botsford Comstock
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  Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work by Subal Chandra Mitra
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  Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces by J. D. Beglar
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  Poets of John Company by various authors
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  Poems by Alan Seeger
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  Wives of the prime ministers, 1844-1906 by Elizabeth Lee
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  The Panchatantra by Vishnu Sharma
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  Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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  Fountains Abbey by George Hodges
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  The Comic English Grammar by Percival Leigh
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  The Kiss and its History by Kristoffer Nyrop
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  A course of six lectures on the various forces of matter and their relations to each other by Michael Faraday
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  A Voyage in Space by Herbert Hall Turner
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  Life in Motion by John Gray McKendrick
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  The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
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  Moll Flanders and Roxana by Daniel Defoe
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  My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus (1908) by Albert Frederick Mummery
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  How to Know the Ferns (7th ed) by Frances Theodora Parsons
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  Myth, Ritual, and Religion/Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
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  The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina by Peter Beveridge
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  Chuang Tzŭ (Giles) by Zhuang Zi
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  The Descent of Man (Darwin) by Charles Darwin
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  Burma by Herbert Thirkell White
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  Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821 by Author:George William Manby
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  Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt
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  Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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  Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857 by Robert Mallet
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  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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  Kopal-Kundala by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
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  The Under-Ground Railroad by William M. Mitchell
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  The Tales of a Traveler by Simon Skidelsky
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  The Life Story of an Otter by John Coulson Tregarthen
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  Athletics and Manly Sport by John Boyle O'Reilly
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  America's National Game by Albert Spalding
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  The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century by Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot
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  Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine by Edward Hull
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  An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child
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  A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
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  Great Speeches of the War by various authors
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  Secrets of Crewe House by Campbell Stuart
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  The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage by Joseph Dalton Hooker
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  Lake Ngami by Charles John Andersson
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  Pieces People Ask For edited by George Melville Baker
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  The Spirit of the Nation published by James Duffy
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  Character of Renaissance Architecture by Charles Herbert Moore
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  Embroidery and Fancy Work (anonymous author)
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  The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
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  Sketches of the History of the Church of Scotland by A. Ranken
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  The First Report of the Lichfield Society by the Lichfield Society
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  The Truth About the Transvaal by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen
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  The Coffee Publichouse by The Coffee Publichouse Association
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  The Descent of Bolshevism by Ameen Rihani
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  The Ethics of Urban Leaseholds by John T. Emmett
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  Notes on the Present and Future of the Archaeological Collections of the University of Oxford by Greville John Chester
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  Remarks on Some Late Decisions Respecting the Colonial Church by Mountague Bernard
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  Canterbury Papers by Association for Founding the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand
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  On the Pollution of the Rivers of the Kingdom by Fisheries Preservation Society
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  Hawarden Castle by George Thomas Clark
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  Why the Shoe Pinches by Georg Hermann von Meyer
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  Navvies and Their Needs by L. M. Evans
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  Weather Facts and Predictions - 3rd edition by George Frederick Chambers
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  How to Play Chess by Charlotte Boardman Rogers
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  Indoor and Outdoor Gymnastic Games by Albert Meader Chesley
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  Association Football and How to Play It by John Cameron
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  Stabilizing the Dollar by Irving Fisher
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  The First Voyage Round the World by Antonio Pigafetta
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  Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan edited by Annie Shepley Omori
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  Marriage as a Trade by Cicely Hamilton
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  Maury's New Elements of Geography for Primary and Intermediate Classes by Matthew Fontaine Maury
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  Balthasar Hübmaier by Henry Clay Vedder
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  Natural History, Birds by Philip Henry Gosse
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  A Treasury of South African Poetry and Verse edited by Edward Heath Crouch
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  The Romance of Nature by Louisa Anne Twamley
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  Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards
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  Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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  The Cycle Industry by W. F. Grew
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  Mr. Punch's Book of Sports
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  English As She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino
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  Japanese flower arrangement by Mary Averill
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  Tensing Exercises by Edward Barrett Warman
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  How to Write a Short Story by Leslie Quirk
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  The Early English Organ Builders and their work by Edward Francis Rimbault
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  Evolution of the Thermometer by Henry Carrington Bolton
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  The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
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  The American Indian by Clark Wissler
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  The European Concert in the Eastern Question by Thomas Erskine Holland
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  Climatic Cycles and Tree-Growth by Andrew Ellicott Douglass
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  The Oak: An Introduction to Forest-Botany by Harry Marshall Ward
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  A Wayfarer in China by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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  A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica by James Hakewill
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  Twilight by Julia Frankau
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  Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters by Octavia Hill
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  Homes of the London Poor by Octavia Hill
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  Our Common Land (and other short essays) by Octavia Hill
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  The Corsair by George Gordon Byron
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  The Merry Muses of Caledonia collected by Robert Burns
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  Sawdust and Spangles by William Cameron Coup
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  Natural History, Mollusca by Philip Henry Gosse
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  A Desk-Book of Errors in English by Frank Horace Vizetelly
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  A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery by Jean Wilde Clark
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  Yule Logs edited by George Alfred Henty
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  English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the nineteenth century by Graham Everitt
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  Ninety-three by Victor Hugo
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  The World's Famous Orations (Ireland)
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  Picturesque New Guinea by John William Lindt
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  Picturesque Nepal by Percy Brown
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  The Life of Michael Angelo by Romain Rolland
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  The fairy tales of science by John Cargill Brough
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  The Female Prose Writers of America by John Seely Hart
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  The Art of Bookbinding by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf
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  The Harvard Classics; Lectures on The Harvard Classics, Volume 51 by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
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  Our American Holidays - Christmas by Robert Haven Schauffler
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  The Fables of Florian by Florian
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  Triangles of life, and other stories by Henry Lawson
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  Picturesque New Zealand by David Paul Gooding
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  The Elizabethan People by Henry Thew Stephenson
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  Persia by Frederic Shoberl
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  Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and other profitable tales by Anatole France
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  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
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  Bull-dog Drummond by Herman Cyril McNeile
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  The Craftsmanship of Writing by Frederic Taber Cooper
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  Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
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  The Passenger Pigeon by William Butts Mershon
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  Handel by Romain Rolland
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  The Suspension of Habeas Corpus during the War of the Rebellion by Sydney G. Fisher
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  Lundy's Lane Battle by Sir Gordon Drummond
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  On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether by Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward Morley
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  M. K. Gandhi: Indian Patriot in South Africa by Joseph J. Doke
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  Frontiers by George Curzon
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  The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 by José Guillermo Hay
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  The Perth gazette and Western Australian journal, Volume 1, Number 2 by Charles Macfaull (editor)
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  Law and Authority by
  Peter Kropotkin
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  The Myth of Occam's Razor by William M. Thorburn
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  Notes on equitation and horse training translation by George H. Cameron
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  An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills (UK, 1837)
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  Seven Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings
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  The Martyrdom of Ferrer by Joseph McCabe
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  Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  CORSETS: An Analysis by Emma E. Goodwin
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  Cakes, Cookies and Confections by
  The California Home Economics Association
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  A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
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  Plato or Protagoras? by F.C.Schiller
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  The Idea of Progress by William Ralph Inge
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  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
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  Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines Cordials and Liqueurs by Helen S. Wright
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  Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by Arthur Hussey
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  The English Constitution (1894) by Walter Bagehot
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  A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 1 by George Grove
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  Omnibuses and Cabs by Henry Charles Moore
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  A Brief History of Modern Philosophy by Harald Høffding
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  Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists by Roger L'Estrange
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  Popular Science Monthly #86 (1915) by Various Authors
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  Lays of Marie de France by
  Marie de France.
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  Poems (1890) by
  Emily Dickinson.
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  On the Vital Principle (1855) by
  Aristotle.
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  The Pilgrim Cook Book (1921) by
  Pilgrim Ladies' Aid Society
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  Equitation by Henry L. de Bussigny
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  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame