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HOLCOIVIB-FRIDTHJOF'S SAGA. A Norse Romance. By EsAi AS Tegner, Bishop of Wexio. Translated from the Swedish by Thomas A. E. and Martha A. Lyon Holcomb. i2mo, cloth, $1.50.

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