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    fully recreation illustrated for girls and finds most a place attractive in this volnme beauti- . Mr . Peters is of opinion that the majority of

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    chapters of other subjects on shopp . Besides inggardening all this , there tennis k are

    p . hotograph — — ^^ — — — y , shell ¦ " — ^ - ~^~ - colle ¦— ^— — ^ ^^^ cting , v «—* , botany ^^ ^^ ^^^¦ p ^^^^»^ p » , , summer ^ ^^ p ^ v ^^^^^^ p , v holidays , and a variety of similar topics . The

    book is sure to be welcome to the more or less leisured ^ - ^ r-pmnr w » ^^ - 4 ^ class ^^^ v ^ wtM ^ M ^ to m ^^ t ^ which « * ¦^¦¦^¦^ fc' ^^^ ii . fc it t ^ W appeals MI I >/ MVt > WAU , _ ^ and . i V Jfc ^ . ffc we * W ^^ Vi can r > J »

    than scarcel a y book imag which ine a is better filled present with for cisel a g the irl kind i of ¦ information ¦ ¦ ¦ which she is l pre ikely to y find

    of service ^^^ ~— - ^^^ ^ r —~ . ™ ^^ v ^^^ ™^ " ^«^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ " ^ P ^ ^^^ - ^^^ r ^ ^ ^ i ^^ ^^^ b ^^^ v ^^ v ^^^ ^ - ^^ B ^ v ^^^ ^^ p ^ P ^^^ ^ P ^ p ^ v ^ B ^ p PJB ^ PA 1 ^ . ^ ^ P ^ pr ^ PB < V ^ PlpT ^ MP ^ r ^ P ^^^ b P ^ P >^ P ^ Pt ^ PIP ^^ B From the same . — ' The Missionary Year-book for

    1889 . ' This valuable work contains historical and statistical information concerning the cijief ^ Protestant ^*^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ P PT ^^ p ^^ ^^ r ^ v ^^^^^^^ ^^ missionary ^ i ^^^^ i *^ P > ^ ' ^^^ ' ^^ ^^^* ^ BV ^^^ ^ P ^ iT ^^ ^^ ^^^ W V societies ^^ ^ . ^^^ ^^^ F ^ PV ^^^ F *^^ PR ^^^ P P ^^ l' of ^ Pji ^ P ^^^^ Great ^ . ^^ ' ^ ^^^ ^^ " ^^^^^ ^^ ^ Britain ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ p ^* ^^^^ ^^ ¦ , ^ m

    America , and the Continent of Europe . The statistics have been brought down to the latest available dateand in nearly every case the

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    testant churches and societies have sent about three thousand ordained missionaries into heathen landsand there are lpi at the present

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    act Christian as home teachers missionaries , who instruct to their the countrymen young and . The professed converts to Christianity with

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    twelve months' dreary captivity in Russia .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 15, 1889, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15061889/page/20/