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    long list of works published in ' The International Scientific Series * by this firm , but a highly valu- ' able b contribution to the b literature b bbb bbb bbbbb of bbbbbb an bbbbbb interest bibbbbbb

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    ! ; movements cally ; secondl —in y the , as first deduc place ed , considered from experiment theoreti- ; \ andthirdlyas viewed by the liht of observation .

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    firm . The story , which is of a melodramatic nature , exhibits tho author in perhaps his most popular V- ^ ^^ pr W *^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ~*^ m ^ humour P ^ *¦* ^^*^ p ^^ ^ B H ^^^^ ^^^ ¦ ¦ , ^^ and v ^ pv ^^ —^ ^ v ^^ ~ is ^ t ^^ ¦ bri - — ^— g h ^ k ^ ht ^ i ^ pv ^ p « p with v v P ^ ^^ p * ^^^*^^ , adventurous ^* "W ^ - ^ *^ f ^ ^^ ¦ ¦ ^ v ^ p ^«> ^ h , ^^ r ^^^ P 1 ffepT

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    Black Pearls , ' by Marie Connor . Had the author

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1886, page 499, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051886/page/17/