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    icles , and doubtless contribute in no slight degree to k « ep up the number readersfor The the mass industry of informati and discrimination on contained in of its its page editor s . of varieties styled * The Gatherer / Bays much

    Messrs . Chambers need go no further [ Vide than pages their 1258 time , 1508 -honoured , and Illustrations * Encyclopaedia 25 to ' 40 for . a book which is excellence entitled to a foremost l laee in our ^ Christmas vii awuiii ^ j showan m *« v d « the sam hrv e

    of oi toaay JNat Natnrft ** be ure AAXUXi said / >¦ X of . O par jifX Robert A'f C « iW / CV » Chambers 'v / v (; C' CIXl / ll / lvU ' * Cyclopaedia Ut / C * JLt / JL \ JlllViO of Eng p ^ jih » v . » V lish > a * jl Literature _ rv » x * - / and - j ** rVidfi [ Vide Milner - ^ w » , page i > ai ' s * lUt 1262 Gallery -w > a . . « - ^'

    to their Messrs table . Oli books atto A . a Wlndns long series offer of as usual novels many by well costl -known y illustrated writers works , and ; and works , in by addition many Popular litterateurs . , [ Tide page 1369 ,

    Mr . JTames Olars : ef the publisher of the CIiHstian World , has prepared some attractive the J ^ Utmaa last-named books volume , including being the printed ' Roaebud in colours Annual . / the ' Christmas Rosebud [ Tide / and page ' Elfinland 1303 . /

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1882, page 1213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121882/page/5/