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Page 6 - Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle-Fields, and Scenes illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry. By WILLIAM HOWITT.
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Page 1 - Hints to Mothers on the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room : With an Exposure of Popular Errors in connexion with those subjects, &c. ; and Hints upon Nursing. New Edition.
Page 14 - Horsemanship ; or, the Art of Riding and Managing a Horse. adapted to the Guidance of Ladies and Gentlemen on the Road and in the Field : With Instructions for Breaking-in Colts and Young Horses.
Page 15 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.