Henry S. King

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“ THEOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH POETS. Being Lectures delivered by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
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MIRANDA. A Midsummer Madness. By Mortimer Collins. 3 vols.
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