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“ BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS; And Other Verses. By Rudyard Kipling. Tenth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
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“ THE SORROWS OF SATAN. Thirty-fourth Edition.
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“ THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. By S. Baring Gould. With over 450 Illustrations in the Text and 13 Photogravure Plates. Large quarto. Gilt top. 36s.
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“ With an Introduction by H. M. Stanley, M.P. With 100 Illustrations and 5 Maps. Demy 8vo. 21s.
Few Europeans have had the same opportunity of studying the barbarous parts of Africa as Mr. Decle. Starting from the Cape, he visited in succession Bechuanaland, the Zambesi, Matabeleland and Mashonaland, the Portuguese settlement on the Zambesi, Nyasaland, Ujiji, the headquarters of the Arabs, German East Africa, Uganda (where he saw fighting in company with the late Major ‘Roddy’ Owen) , and British East Africa. ”

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“ Baring Gould can be freely congratulated. The writer’s plan has been to “lay on one side what concerned Napoleon’s military achievements and the political importance of his life, so far as did not bear on the development of his mind and the movements of his heart.” By this means a novel point of view has been secured, and the result is a narrative of which the chief characteristic is an agreeable freshness.’—Globe.
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“ Emily Lawless, Author of ‘Maelcho,’ etc. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
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A small volume of verse by a writer whose initials are well known to Oxford men.
‘A capital specimen of light academic poetry. These verses are very bright and engaging, easy and sufficiently witty.’—St. James’s Gazette.
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S. Baring Gould. HISTORIC ODDITIES AND STRANGE EVENTS. By S. Baring Gould. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.
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“ GERMAN A COMPANION GERMAN GRAMMAR. By H. de B. Gibbins, D.Litt., M.A., Assistant Master at Nottingham High School. Crown 8vo. 1s. 6d.
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“ EDWARD GIBBON THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By Edward Gibbon. A New Edition, edited with Notes, Appendices, and Maps by J. B. Bury, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. In Seven Volumes. Demy 8vo, gilt top. 8s. 6d. each. Crown 8vo. 6s. each. Vol. III.
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