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=THE HEAD OF A HUNDRED.= Being an Account of Certain Passages in the Life
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Edited by MAUD WILDER GOODWIN, author of “The Colonial Cavalier.” 16mo.
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=WHITE APRONS.= A Romance of Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia, 1676. By MAUD
WILDER GOODWIN. 16mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $1.25.
A beautiful little story, sweet and inspiring, not less clever
than true.—_New York Times._
A charming story… Its fidelity to the conditions prevailing in
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=A WOMAN OF SHAWMUT.= A Romance of Colonial Times. Boston, 1640. By
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=CINQ-MARS=; or, A Conspiracy under Louis XIII. By Count ALFRED DE VIGNY.
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=THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES.= An Historical Romance of the Court of Henry II.
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