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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 347

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    Several of the festivals of the Greek Church are described well . So babies are are the made frequent to take fasts their in is which share it , to but seems the we gravity do little not children think and interest the and sketch even of

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    Notices Of Books. 347

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 347

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/59/