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Half-hours avitii the Best Authors. 



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*#* This book contains 320 Extracts of the best efforts of our great Standard Authors, 

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Half-hours with the Best Authors. 



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Half-hours of English History. 



Selected and Arranged by Charles Knight. 

 A Companion Volume to the " Half- Hours with the Best Authors P 



Contains the Choicest Historical Extracts from upwards of Fifty Standard Authors, 

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