April 5- 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUEllIES. 



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99 ti^e SlttAf ^rcb ^a,s coiQinenced the Publication of a 



NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY, 



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Price Half-a-Crown, Beauti/uUjr Bound. 



The Age in which we live is essentially of a pcarti'ca/ character, 

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As a practical explanation of the aliove views. Three Sample 

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BOSWELL'S LIFE OF DK. JOHNSON, Vol. I. 



THE BOOK OF ENGLISH SONGS. 



THE BURIED CITY OF THE EAST — NINEVEH. 



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ILLUSTRATIONS of tlie REMAINS of 

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HARDWICK'S HISTORY OF THE ARTICLES. 

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A HISTORY of the ARTICLES of RE- 

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rpHE NUPTIALS of BARCELONA: 



.■_ A Talc of Priestly Frailty and Spanish Tyranny. 



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