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... YOUNG . BY WILLIAM AND MARY HOWITT . THE CHILD'S PICTURE AND VERSE BOOK , COMMONLY CALLED " OTTO SPECKTER'S FABLE BOOK . " Translated by MARY HOWITT . With French and German on corresponding pages , and illustrated with 100 Engravings ...
... YOUNG . BY WILLIAM AND MARY HOWITT . THE CHILD'S PICTURE AND VERSE BOOK , COMMONLY CALLED " OTTO SPECKTER'S FABLE BOOK . " Translated by MARY HOWITT . With French and German on corresponding pages , and illustrated with 100 Engravings ...
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... young amongst our cottagers , farmers , and yeomen . Some of his descrip- tions of this class of life and images are not exceeded by those miniature representations of the same imagery which we find in Crabbe , and other rural poets ...
... young amongst our cottagers , farmers , and yeomen . Some of his descrip- tions of this class of life and images are not exceeded by those miniature representations of the same imagery which we find in Crabbe , and other rural poets ...
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... young German scholar who has fur- nished the MS . to Howitt ( and we have the means of proving this to be no fiction ) has acquitted himself ho- nourably and faithfully ; not a single feature is forgotten ; nothing that is blameworthy ...
... young German scholar who has fur- nished the MS . to Howitt ( and we have the means of proving this to be no fiction ) has acquitted himself ho- nourably and faithfully ; not a single feature is forgotten ; nothing that is blameworthy ...
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... young . " Atlas , Jan. 20 , 1839 . " We know of no book which we should be more apt to select as a present for a young person in whom we might feel interested . " Chambers ' Journal . " We have read this book as if it were some fairy ...
... young . " Atlas , Jan. 20 , 1839 . " We know of no book which we should be more apt to select as a present for a young person in whom we might feel interested . " Chambers ' Journal . " We have read this book as if it were some fairy ...
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... young friends - and , if we mistake not , many old ones too - will find these volumes full of interest , and it will not be the fault of their fair author if the effect of their perusal be not to strengthen domestic affections , and to ...
... young friends - and , if we mistake not , many old ones too - will find these volumes full of interest , and it will not be the fault of their fair author if the effect of their perusal be not to strengthen domestic affections , and to ...
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