Can you form from this the name of a famous British author, treating the 150 as Roman numerals?

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No. LIX.—FOR THE CHILDREN

Cut out in cardboard four pieces of the shape and size of each of the large patterns, and two pieces of the small one:—

Now arrange these ten pieces so that they form a perfect square.

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47. SHEDDING LETTERS

I’m a worker most active, most useful, most known,
Of all that are busy in country and town.
Take from me one letter, and yet my good name
In spite of this loss will continue the same.
Take from me two letters, and still you will see
That precisely the same in effect I shall be.
Take from me three letters, or even take more,
Yet still I continue as sound as before.

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