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Muses of Mayfair: Vers de Société of

the Nineteenth Century. Embracing the best Society-Verses of the most important Writers of the last 80 years, including TENNYSON, BROWNING, SWINBURNE, ROSSETTI, JEAN INGELOW, LOCKER, INGOLDSBY, HOOD, LYTTON, C. S. C., LANDOR, HENRY S. Leigh, and very many others. Edited by H. CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, Author of "Puck on Pegasus." Beautifully printed, cloth extra gilt, gilt edges, uniform with "The Golden Treasury of Thought," 75.6d. MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY'S POEMS.

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