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38 GLOBE LIBRARY,

Dry den's Poetical Works. Edited, with a Memoir,

Revised Text, and Notes, by W. D. CHiasTiE, M. A., of Trinity

College, Cambridge, pp. Ixaocvii., 662.

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The Works of Virgil. Rendered into English Prose, with Introductions, Notes, Running Analysis, and an Index. By James Lonsdale, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of Balliol Coll^je^ Oxford, and Classical Professor in King's College, London; and Samuel Lee, M.A., Latin Lecturer at University College, London, pp. 288.

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