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ANNE OF AVONLEA

BIOGRAPHY

THE FIRST GEORGE IN HANOVER AND ENGLAND. By Lewis Melville. In two vols., demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, with 18 illustrations, including two in photogravure, 24s. net.

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GEORGE FOX'S JOURNAL. {See Dainty Volume Library, page 9.)

THE LIFE OF FROUDE. By Herbert Paul, M.P. With two photo- gravure portraits. Second Edition. Revised. In demy Svo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 16s. net.

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BISHOP WALSHAM HOW. A Memoir. By his Son, Frederick Douglas How. Cheap edition. In crown Svo, cloth gilt, 6s.

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THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. By James Boswell. Newly edited with notes by Roger Ingpen. With 568 illustrations, including 12 photogravure plates fully indexed. In two vols., crown 4to, half morocco, 21s. net. (Also in two vols., handsome cloth gilt, 18s. net.)

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THE LIFE OF THOMAS KEN, Bishop of Bath and Wells. By the late Very Rev. E. H. Plumptre, D.D., Dean of Wells. With illustra- tions. Two vols. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 12s. Second Edition revised.

GEORGE MACDONALD. A Biographical and Critical Appreciation. By Joseph Johnson. In crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 2s. 6d. net.

FRIDTJOF NANSEN. By Jacob B. Bull. A book for the young. Translated from the Norwegian by the Rev. Mordaunt R. Barnard, one of the translators of Farthest North. Illustrated. In crown 8vo, 2s. 6d.

THE LIFE OF NELSON. By Robert Southey. In fcap. 8vo, leather gilt, gilt top, 2s. 6d. net.

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