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At the Court of King Edwin, Leighton, 203 Books, A. B. Alcott on, 28; Books and Reading, 25; for Young Children, 35; Select Lists of, for libraries, 184, 203; Books, Successful, 78; Test of excellence of, 78 Boston Book Bulletin, 105, 168; Boston the center of the universe, 63; Public Library, Fiction List, 13; Boston sayings, three wittiest, 68, 82, 104, 127 Botany, N. A., Bibliographical Index to, Watson, 218 Bulletins of Publishers, Burnett, F. H., Dolly, 193; Kathleen, 193; Surly Tim, 99; Theo, Burning of the Convent, Whitney, By Celia's Arbor, Besant and Rice, CABALLERO, Fernan, 19; La Gaviota, Canoes and Canoeing, Carew, R., Tangled, Caricature and other Comic Art, Parton, · Carlyle, T., Carpenter, M., 12 Congregationalism, Lectures on, Dexter, 105 Continental Literature, 140 Corbin, C. F., Rebecca, Cornwall, Barry, 46 Coronation, Tenney, 105 Correct, and accurate, Carpenter, W. B., Mesmerism and Spiritualism,80 Castle St. Angelo, and the Evil Eye, Story, Creighton, L., Edward the Black Prince, 166; 35 Dugdale, R. L., The Jukes, ΙΟΙ 178 Duncan, F. J., My Intimate Friend, 194 Conway, M. D., Idols and Ideals, 37 99 33 Cook, C., The House Beautiful, 117; Lübke's 155 Early English Text Society, 81 48 27 217 Cook, J., 184; Biology, 87, 104; Orthodoxy, East Lynne, Wood, 100 Cook's Eastern Question, 12, 18, 32, 43, 44, 58, 66, 107 189 [148, 171 180, 197 Eastern Question, Bugbee, 12 50, 51 Echoes from Mist-Land, Forestier, 162 46, 50, 68 Economic Monographs, 183, 213 17 Economics, Sturtevant, 101 172 Eden, Garden of, 52 90 Editorial Correspondence, 53 101 Edkins, Religion in China, 104 Education, Cyclopedia of, Kiddle & Schem, 12 211 Legal Tender, 14 Matson, N., Memories of Shaubena, Leighton, W., At the Court of King Edwin, 112 Maudsley, Physiology of Mind, Lenox Library, 21 May, T. 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H., Here and There in Verse, Magazines, Dead, 96; Magazines, Mission of 125 Meta Holdenis, Cherbuliez, 149 Metempsychosis, Works on, 69 Montfort, S. de, Creighton, 95 Moore, Thomas, Prose and Verse, 155 Morris, E. E., Age of Anne, 68 Morris, W., The Decorative Arts, 213 Mosel, Two Hundred Miles on, Waring, 118 Mosses, Bridgman, Mother Goose, Kendall, 213; Melodies, 7 Mother-in-law, The, Southworth, 194 Nomisma, or Legal Tender, Cernuschi, 14 35 Nora's Love Test, Hay, 46 179 52 North American Rodentia, Coues & Allen, 9 Northend, C., Memory Gems, 177 Norton, Caroline, 213 Norton, C. L., Canoeing in Kanuckia, 172 125 183 35 210 Milton League, 77 Minor Book Notices, 12, 31, 43, 46, 65, 79, 100, Novels, American, Abroad, 97; Didactic, 96, |