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ea What Can She Do? New Border Tales Frank Fairlegh Zanoni Macaria Inez Conduct and Duty Windsor Castle Hard Times Tower of London John Halifax, Gentleman Westward Ho! Lavengro It is Never Too Late to Mend Two Years Ago In His Steps Crucifixion of Phillip Strong His Brother's Keeper Robert Hardy's Seven Days, and Malcom Kirk (in 1 vol.) Richard Bruce The Twentieth Door House of the Seven Gables Elsie Venner The Romany Rye Little Dorrit The Scarlet Letter Mary Barton London: Walter Scott, Limited, Paternoster Square. NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY. GRAVURE EDITION. PRINTED ON ANTIQUE PAPER. 2s. 6d. PER VOL. _Each Volume with a Frontispiece in Photogravure._ By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. THE SCARLET LETTER. THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES. THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE. TANGLEWOOD TALES. TWICE-TOLD TALES. A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. OUR OLD HOME. MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE. THE SNOW IMAGE. TRUE STORIES FROM HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. THE NEW ADAM AND EVE. LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE HOUSE. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. ELSIE VENNER. By HENRY THOREAU. ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS. WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD. London: Walter Scott, Limited, Paternoster Square. Crown 8vo, Cloth Elegant, Price 5s. net. =BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES= Drawn and Described by JOHN DUNCAN. This volume contains about 400 drawings of birds by John Duncan, naturalist and artist. The drawings are accompanied by a concise description of each bird. * * * * * Mr. Chas. Dixon, in the Introduction to this work, says:--"Just a century ago, British naturalists and the British public were captivated by the first volume of Bewick's classic _History of British Birds_--a work, completed by the issue of the second volume seven years later, that gave more or less accurate pictures of all the species, and one that has retained a high place in the affections of ornithologists and artistic people generally down to the present time. To a certain extent, Mr. Duncan's volume very closely resembles the immortal engraver on wood; and in some respects, as those who have the pleasure of inspecting his remarkable series of drawings will find for themselves, it is superior
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