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Messrs. Sampson L.Ow, Marston, Searle, &...
Jules Verne has been so long known as a master of imaginative writing , both for boys and for volumes readers by of this an celebrated older type , that French any author work from now his lie pen before is assure us . d The of popular first , Tb attention e Vanished . Two
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I anxiously mark the effect of their broadside . And sink she undoubtedly does . I I of the Mrs beautiful . Francis volume Sinclair she , jun has ., just has been given happy to the in public the quotation : — which graces the title-page
* Fair is the bird on lustrous wings , I ^_ And , stars . _ . _ throug ^^ h all _ nig ^~ ht ' s - - silent hours ;
But first—of all created things—I In wondrous beauty stand the flowers . ' _ The —— vers iwiov e jio is x remarkabl vxixci x t \ . OiKJX y v appropriate auj ^/ J . vj ^/ x ia no for x \ j m . at a work »» v ^ i . jrv like 4 . asv \_/ « In *«« digenous *« ^ % j * jtv ** « 7 a Flowers » v i * v «» of w > the «» v Hawaiian •* . !• • ¥ »••••«
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when w « en one one comes nonrms to \ -. r % searc haa / toIi h , on r » n hill hill and and plain nlain , . sea sea coast ooA '& h and and cloud nloud--en enveloned veJoped mountai mountain n , , it it . . is is researches astonishing the is the forcibl number y shown and variet in this y that sumptuous are to volume be found , which / The deals success with flowers of Mrs collected . Sinclair in ' s islands of Kauai and Niihanthe most northern of the UliO Hawaiian € M > Archipelago ^* gj Botanists vvii
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 7, 1885, page 1275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_07121885/page/15/
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