PITMAN'S CATALOGUE OF GENERAL LITERATURE 



DANIEL O'CONNELL : HIS EARLY LIFE AND JOURNAL, 1795- 

 1802. Edited with an introduction and explanatory notes by 

 Arthur Houston, LL.D., K.C. With three full-page plate 

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THE LIFE OF SIR ISAAC PITMAN (Inventor of Phonography). By 

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" The book is very well done. It gives a life-like picture of a 

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" Good reading for all who have studied Phonography, and the 

 general reader will find plenty to interest him in this study of Sir 

 Isaac Pitman." — Daily News. 



WILLIAM CONYNGHAM PLUNKET. By F. D. How. Fourth Baron 

 Plunket, and sixty-first Archbishop of Dublin. A Memoir. With 

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A GREAT " PUNCH " EDITOR. Being the Life, Letters, and Diaries 

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THE LIFE AND WORK OF BISHOP THOROLD. Rochester, 1877-91 ; 

 Winchester, 1891-95. Prelate of the most noble Order of the 

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JOHN WESLEY. (See Dainty Volume Library.) 



WHISTLER AND OTHERS. By Frederick Wedmore. In demy 8vo, 

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" Nothing that has been written about Whistler hits the golden 

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