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A MONTHLY SURVEY

OF

GENERAL LITERATURE

VOLUME IV

SEPTEMBER 1885 TO AUGUST 1886

PHILADELPHIA

JOHN WANAMAKER

1886

pp. 180.

Harper's Monthly Magazine

(No. 424.)
For September

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