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The Spiritual Point of View: or, The Glass Reversed, An Answer to Bishop
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Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers engaged in the War against the Rebellion of 1881. By James Grant Wilson. Chicago. James Barnet. 8vo. paper. pp. 110. 50 cts.
Walter's Tour in the East. By Daniel C. Eddy, D.D., Author of "The Percy Family," "Walter in Egypt." New York. Sheldon & Co. 16mo. pp. 222. 60 cts.
Answers to Ever-Recurring Questions from the People. (A Sequel to the
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Seven Little People and their Friends. Illustrated by F.A. Chapman. New
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The Pirates of the Prairies; or, Adventures in the American Desert. By Gustave Aimard. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson & Brothers. 8vo. paper, pp. 152. 50 cts.
The Siege of Richmond: a Narrative of the Military Operations of Major-General George B. McClellan during the Months of May and June, 1862. By Joel Cook, Special Correspondent of the Philadelphia Press with the Army of the Potomac. Philadelphia. George W. Childs. 12mo. pp. viii., 358. $1.25.
The Phantom Bouquet; a Popular Treatise on the Art of skeletonizing
Leaves and Seed-Vessels, and adapting them to embellish the Home of
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Manual of Geology: treating of the Principles of the Science with
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Colleges, Academies, and Schools of Science. By James D. Dana, M.A.,
LL.D., Silliman Professor of Geology and Natural History in Yale
College, Author of "A System of Mineralogy," of Reports of Wilkes's
Exploring Expedition, on Geology, on Zoöphytes, and on Crustacea, etc.
Illustrated by a Chart of the World, and over a Thousand Figures, mostly
from American Sources. Philadelphia. Theodore Bliss & Co. 8vo. pp. xvi.,
798. $5.00.
The Old Merchants of New York. By Walter Barrett, Clerk. New York. G.W.
Carleton. 12mo. pp. 472. $1.50.
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