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Lives of Five Distinguished Americans, i he Only 

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iVlATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY. A typical Am»rican Naval Officer. 

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 " Corea : the Hermit Nation." Cr. Svo, 459 pages, gilt top, with two por- 

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" Sure of favorable reception, and a permanent place in public and private 

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THADDEUS STEVENS, AMERICAN STATESMAN, AND 



FOUNDER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. A Memoir by 



E. B. Callendar. With portrait. Cr. Svo. Cloth, gilt top. $1.50. 



A biography of one of the most interesting characters in the whole range of 



American politics, whose work must be understo(.id tlioroughly to gnin accurate 



knowledge of the secret forces operating during his times, 1792 to i86y. 



JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. A Biography of the author of " Home, 

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 and photographic illustrations of his tomb at Washington, etc., etc. Svo. 

 Cloth elegant, gilt top, in box. ^3.00. 

 Apart from the remembrance and regard in which the author of " Home, 

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 of the poet's body from Africa to Washington. 



THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BARONET; 

 HIS ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ANCESTORS. By Thomas 

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 The name of Coffin is so widely spread over our continent, so many thous- 

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 Tristram, its first American patriarch, that what concerns them all, any consid- 

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 biography. 



THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COMMODORE CHARLES 



MORRIS. "VM heliotypc portrait after Ary Schcffcr. i vol. Svo. 

 1 1 1 Images. $ 1 .00. 

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