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of Dublin University; "How Electricity is Measured" is the sub- 

 ject of an entertaining article by Professor Edward L. Nichols of 

 Cornell University: that the new Greece is worth studying as well 

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— Messrs. Ginn & Co. announce to be ready in June, "The 

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— The famous Bill of Rights adopted by Parliament in 1689, 

 which finally settled the constitutional character of the English 

 Government and brought kings strictly under law, has just been 

 added to the Old South Leaflets, being the nineteenth number in 

 the new general series, published for the directors of the Old 

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— Mr. Edwin D. Mead's addresses on the Roman Catholic 

 Church and the public schools have been put together in a little 

 volume of a hundred pages, which will be published immediately 

 by George 11. Ellis, Boston. The collection includes the addresses 

 given before the Woman Suffrage League in Boston during the 

 controversy over Sninton's "History," the address before the 

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— Russell Sturgis, the well known architect, has written for the 

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