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Chambers's Encyclopædia.

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THE STUDENT'S HUME. New Edition. A History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688. Based on the History of DAVID HUME. Incorporating the Corrections and Researches of Recent Historians. Continued to the Treaty of Berlin in 1878. New Edition, Revised and Corrected by J. S. BREWER, M.A., late Professor of Modern History and English Literature, King's College, London. With an Appendix by an American Editor. Illustrated by Maps and Engravings on Wood. Large 12mo, 844 pp., cloth, $1.50. Uniform with the Student's Series.

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