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Works of Biography
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Sir Philip Sidney: His Life and Times. By Mrs. S. M. Henry Davis, Author of "Norway Nights and Russian Days." Steel portrait of Sidney.
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Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. By Wm. Osborne Stoddard, Secretary to President Lincoln.
"Graphic and entertaining ... as rich in incident as any romance, and sparkling with wise wit and racy anecdote. It comprises a large mass of valuable and judiciously epitomized information."—Harper's Monthly.
Henry Ward Beecher: His Personality, Career and Influence in Public Affairs. By John R. Howard. With portraits.
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Bismarck: His Authentic Biography. By George Hezekiel. Historical Introduction by Bayard Taylor. Profusely Illustrated: New Map, etc.
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Bryant and His Friends: A Memoir of Wm. Cullen Bryant, and Reminiscences of the best-known Knickerbocker Writers—Irving, Halleck, Paulding, Cooper, Dana, etc., etc. By James Grant Wilson. Illustrated with portraits and manuscript fac-similes.
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Life and Letters of John H. Raymond. Organizer and First President of Vassar College. Edited by Harriet Raymond Lloyd. Steel Portrait. Ex. cloth, beveled,
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Choice Works of Fiction,
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ANONYMOUS. A Palace-Prison; or, the Past and the Present. Sanity Amid the Insane.
HENRY WARD BEECHER. Norwood: a Tale of Village Life in New England.
ALEXANDRE BIDA. Aucassin and Nicolette: The Lovers of Provence. Song-Story, from French of XIIth Century, trans. by A. R. Macdonough. Illustrated by Bida.
HELEN CAMPBELL. Under Green Apple Boughs. Illustrated.
JULIUS CHAMBERS. On a Margin. A Novel of Wall Street and Washington.
CHAS. M. CLAY. The Modern Hagar. Southern View of the War.
ALICE C. HALL. Miss Leighton's Perplexities. A Love Story.
WM. J. HARSHA. Ploughed Under: The Story of an Indian Chief.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE. Dust. A Novel. With Portrait and Illustrations.
NATHAN C. KOUNS. Dorcas: A Tale of the Catacombs. Illustrated by Will Low.
ORPHEUS C. KERR (R. H. NEWELL). There Was Once a Man. (Inverted Darwinism.) Illustrated.
MRS. A. G. PADDOCK. The Fate of Madame La Tour. Mormonism in Utah.
BLANCHE ROOSEVELT. Stage-Struck: or, She Would be an Opera Singer.
ALBION W. TOURGEE. Murvale Eastman: Christian Socialist; Hot Plowshares; A Royal Gentleman; Figs and Thistles; A Fool's Errand; Bricks Without Straw. Illustrated. John Eax, and other Stories; Black Ice.
WM. A. WILKINS. The Cleverdale Mystery: The Political Machine and its Wheels.
GEO. F. WILLIAMS. Bullet and Shell: A Story of War as the Soldier Saw it. Illustrated by Edwin Forbes.