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The Most Expensive City in the World. 



A Buhble-Dlowing Insect. (Illustrated.) 



The Negro since the Civil War. 



The Birds of the Adirondack^. 



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A Hundred Years of Chemistry. (Concluded.) 



Mount Tamalpais. (Illustrated.) 



International Law and the Peace Conference. 



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Science Study and National Character. 



Editor's Table : Thoughts for the Times.— A Humiliating Situation 99 



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Senator George Chahoon. '40 



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