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“If the stories are marked by a complacency pardonable under the circumstances, and if they fail to prove quite all their authors think they do prove for negro progress, yet they are not uninstructive.”

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“The writing is unpretentious and therefore the more forcible.”

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[*] Washington, George. Washington: principal state papers, $1. Century.

This volume in the “Thumb nail” series “is uniform with the early copies of this series which is a small vest-pocket edition richly bound in embossed leather. This volume contains W. E. H. Lecky’s famous essay on ‘The character of Washington’ taken from his ‘History of England in the eighteenth century,’ ‘Washington’s farewell address to the people of the United States,’ his ‘Address to the officers in 1783,’ his ‘Circular letter addressed to the governors of all the states on disbanding the army,’ his ‘Farewell orders to the armies of the United States,’ and his ‘Inaugural address to both houses of congress.’”—Arena.

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