The Romance of the Canoness: A Life-HistoryHeyse, Paul
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The Romance of the Canoness: A Life-History
Heyse, Paul
German fiction -- Translations into English
ALIETTE (La Morte). By Octave Feuillet, author of "The Romance of a
Poor Young Man," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; half bound, 75 cents.
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Morte.' ... Altogether the machinery of the novel is excellent and the
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"The development of the characters is most skillful, and while the
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of the two ways in which the modern scientific education may operate;
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whose mind has been formed under religious influences and one whose
growing intellect has been carefully guarded against all spiritual
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WON BY WAITING. A Novel. By Edna Lyall. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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