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W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue…

Bennett's fancy is an odd one, and he has worked it out with great humour. A comic figure makes a shadow really more comic than itself, and it excites an amount of agreeable curiosity and gratification on seeing the one figure, to imagine how the artist will contrive to make it reflect another."—Morning Chronicle.
The Fables of Æsop and others. Translated into Human Nature, with 25 Humorous Illustrations by Charles H. Bennett, author of "Shadows."
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W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue…

Webster's Quarto Dictionary, unabridged; containing all the Words in the English Language, with their Etymologies and Derivations. By Noah Webster, LL.D. Revised by Professor Goodrich. With Pronouncing Vocabularies of Scripture, Classical, and Geographical Names. New Edition, carefully printed in a large 4to volume, 31s. 6d. cloth; 42s. calf.
⁂ The only complete work. All the octavo editions are Abridgments.
"All young persons should have a standard Dictionary at their elbow; and while you are about it, get the best: that Dictionary is Noah Webster's, the great work unabridged.
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W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue…

English Without a Master. A Course of Lessons in the English Language. Price 2s.
[Pg 30]
Price One Shilling, Monthly,
THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE.
A Journal devoted to Literature and Art, and equally an organ of both—an Art Magazine, but not one to which Literature is merely incidental; a Literary Magazine, but not one to which Art is a mere adjunct.
Attractiveness of subject and of treatment is studied in every department. Tales by acknowledged authors occupy considerable space; reviews; essays; varieties of travel and adventure; humorous sketches
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