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HEWITT.—“Our Bible.” Three Lectures, delivered at Unity Church, Oak Park, Ill., by Rev. J. O. M. Hewitt. 12mo., 109 pages. Price, $1.25.
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LAMARTINE.—Graziella; a Story of Italian Love. Translated from the French of A. De Lamartine by James B. Runnion. Small 4to, 235 pages, red line, tinted paper, full gilt, uniform with holiday edition of “Memories.” Price, $2.00.
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MASON.—Mae Madden. A Story; by Mrs. Mary Murdoch Mason, with an introductory poem by Joaquin Miller. 16mo., red edges. Price, $1.25.
“There is hardly a page in which you may not find some bright, fresh thought; some little generalization full of the flavor of true wit, or some charming description, deliciously feminine, and running over with the spirit of poetry.”—Cincinnati Times.
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MASON AND LALOR.—The Primer of Political Economy, in Sixteen Definitions and Forty Propositions, by A. B. Mason and J. J. Lalor. 12mo., 67 pages. Price, 75 cents.