[*] “The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently indicated.”
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Hugo, Victor. [Notre Dame de Paris.] $1.25. Crowell.
A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.
Hugo, Victor. [Toilers of the sea.] $1.25. Crowell.
A translation from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood, uniform with the other attractive volumes of the “Thin paper classics” series.
Hulbert, Archer Butler, and others. [Future of road making in America.] (Historic highways in America.) [*]$2.50. Clark, A. H.
Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America as portrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series. Besides the first essay, which gives the title to this volume, Mr. Hulbert’s symposium includes “Government co-operation in object-lesson road work,” by Martin Dodge; Maurice O. Eldridge’s “Good roads for farmers,” Prof. Logan Waller Page’s “The selection of materials for macadam roads,” and E. G. Harrison’s “Stone roads in New Jersey.” There will be a final volume devoted to an index.
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