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    Kane in search of Sir John Franklin . The story is not only attractive but conveys much trustworthy information as to life in the polar regions ; and the

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    which will be of much service either to working or amateur gardeners in the choice of ' stuff ; ' a summary of new vegetables ; notes on new

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    From Mr . L . TTpcott Gill . —* Turning for Amateurs : being descriptions of the lathe and its attachments

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    and revised , edition of a work , whichhas alread attained a wide popularity , and althoug , h dealing y I with a subject necessarily full of technicalities it

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    appeared professional papers from July 1882 to Juty 1883 , arranged in alphabetical order under their various subjects .

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    catalogue any book whose author , title , or subject S is known . The work is an indispensable aid to I all engaged in the American book trade , and fill

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    and they are written in a most attractive way . I From Mr . Walter Scott . — Stenograpliy ; or , Short-1 hand Writing without a Master / bJoha IM

    Iiowes . The author of this juanual y needs no I better statement credentials on his titl than e- are that furnished he has been by the fta II ] page

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 18, 1884, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_18011884/page/10/