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end of the book will be found all the Questions, both on Statics and Dynamics, 

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Brush Drawing, Adapted to Meet the Requirements of the 

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The Tutorial Latin Reader. Second edition. Cr. 8vo, 

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This contains a Graduated Series of Extracts for Practice in Translation at 

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An Elementary Text-Book of Hydrostatics. By William 

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The ground covered by this volume of the " University Tutorial Seiies " 

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Shakespeare's History of the Life and Death of King 



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The Introduction to this volume gives the History of the Play, the Sources 

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Selections from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. Edited, 



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Mr. Martin has given us here the Arthurian Legend in a concise and read- 

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Is Natural Selection the Creator of Species ? By Duncan 

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The author is evidently a man of very strong views and opinions ; he 

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The Illustrated Bible Treasury and Concordance. 



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