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to be the editor-in-chief. The first number will appear Jan. 1, 1891, 

 and will contain "Great Glaciers of the Selkirk?," by C. M. Skin- 

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 "Women Mountain-Climbers in 1890;" "Other Day, the Sioux 

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 hofer's Travels in Liberia;" "Tourist Houfces in New Lands;'" 

 "Traces of the Lost Explorer, Leichhardt; " "New Islands in 

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— Babyhood for November contains an article on " Vegetables as 

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