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By-Paths in Collecting. By Virginia 

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 565 pages. Price, $2.40. 

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Indoor Gardening in Room and Green- 

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Egyptian Days. By Philip S. Marden. 



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1912. Cloth, 8vo. Illustrated. 329 



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The Land of the Rising Sun. By 

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