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CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS U.S.A.
THE CORNER OF HARLEY STREET
Being some familiar correspondence of PETER HARDING, M.D.
"A fair criticism, a complete defence, and some high praise of the doctoring trade."—London Punch.
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"There is nothing upon which the genial Dr. Harding has not something to say that is worth listening to."—-London Daily Mail,
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PEOPLE OF POPHAM
By MARY C.E. WEMYSS
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A YEAR IN A COAL-MINE
By JOSEPH HUSBAND
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THE CONFESSIONS OF A RAILROAD SIGNALMAN
By J.O. FAGAN
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"A terrible indictment of our railway management."—New York Post.
"The literature of the day contains few things more interesting than these confessions. They relate to railroad accidents, and the confessor is manifestly a man not only of remarkable discernment, but likewise of rhetorical skill."—Stone and Webster Public Service Journal.
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ROUTINE AND IDEALS
BY LE BARON R. BRIGGS, President of Radcliffe College.
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SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND CHARACTER
BY THE AUTHOR OF "ROUTINE AND IDEALS."
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"With the soundest good sense and with frequent humorous flashes, Dean Briggs takes students and parents into his confidence, and shows them the solution of college problems from the point of view, not of the 'office' but of a very clear-thinking, whole-souled man in the 'office'"—The World's Work, New York.
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JOHN PERCYFIELD
By C. HANFORD HENDERSON
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