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The North American Indians of To-day

By George Bird Grinnell, Ph.D.

Author of "Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales," &c.

Illustrated with 55 Full-page Portraits of Living Indians.

Demy 4to, bound in art canvas.

Price L1, 1s. net.

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life of the Red Man of to-day, we must refer our readers to the volume
itself."--_Daily Chronicle._

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The Private Life of Queen Victoria

By One of Her Majesty's Servants

With numerous Illustrations.

Crown 8vo, cloth.

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Fun on the Billiard Table

A Collection of 75 Amusing Tricks and Games, with Photographs and Diagrams

By "Stancliffe"

Crown 8vo

Post free, 2s. 6d.

TRICK WITH MATCHBOXES

Get two outside covers of any sort of the ordinary matchboxes, large size.
Place them on the billiard table with a ball on each. Put a third ball in
a line with a pocket and the two other balls as in diagram.

[Illustration]

Play a hard shot with the ball on the table into the pocket through the
matchboxes, which should fly off the table, and the two balls will occupy
the places where the matchboxes stood.

The above is an example of one of the seventy-five tricks contained in the
book.

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Besieged with Baden-Powell

A Complete Record of the Siege of Mafeking

By J. Emerson Neilly

Special War Correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" i