Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Horne's Orion: An Epic Poem, in Three Books, By Richard Hengist Horne, Tenth Edition. "Orion will be admitted, by every man of genius, to be one of the noblest, if not the very noblest, poetical work of the age. It's defects are trivial and conventional, its beauties intrinsic and supreme."—Edgar Allan Poe.
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Marston's (Dr. Westland) Dramatic and Poetical Works, Collected Library Edition.
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“ Magic No Mystery: Tricks with Cards, Dice, Balls, &c., with fully descriptive Directions; the Art of Secret Writing; the Training of Performing Animals, &c, With Coloured Frontispiece and many Mlastrations.
The Merry Circle:
A Book of New Intellectual Games and Amusements. By CLARA PeLLew. Many Illustrations. The Secret Out: One Thousand Tricks with Cards, and other Recreations; with Entertaining Experiments in Drawing-room or *' White Magic." By W. H. CREMER. 300 Engravings,
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The School of Shakspere.
Including *' The Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley," with a New Life of Stucley, from Unpublished Sources; ** No. body and Somebody," "Histriomastix," The Prodigal Son," "Jack Drum's Entertainment," "A Warning for Fair Women," with Reprints of the Accounts of the Murder; and Faire Em." Edited, with Introductions and Notes, and an Account of Robert Green and his Quarrels with Shakspere, by Richard Simpson, B.A., Author of "The Philosophy of Shakspere's Sonnets," ** The Life of Campion," &c. ”

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“ Lamont’s Yachting in the Arctic Seas; or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neigh- bourhood of S itzbergen and Novaya Zemlya. By JAMES LAMONT, F.R.G.S. With numerous full-page Illustrations by Dr. Livesay.
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The Roll of Caerlaverock.
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The Art of Amusing: A Collection of Graceful Arts, Games, Tricks, Puzzles, and Charades. ”

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AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUOTATIONS from Writers of all Times and Countries. Selected and Edited by Theodore Taylor,
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Latter-Day Lyrics: Poems of Sentiment and Reflection by Living Writers; selected and arranged, with Notes, by W. DavenrorT ADAMS. With a Note on some Foreign Forms of Verse, by AUSTIN Donson,
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“ NEW NOVEL BY F¥USTIN MCCARTHY. Two vols, Svo, cloth extra, Illustrated, 215., the TH1rp Epitron of
Miss Misanthrope.
By Justin McCartuy, Author of '* Dear Lady Disdain," &c. With 12 Illustrations by Artitllrk Horxins.
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Historical Portraits; Upwards of 430 Engravings of Rare Prints. Comprising the . ”