Part 17

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~Hall's (Mrs. S. C.) Sketches of Irish Character.~ With numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood by MACLISE, GILBERT, HARVEY, and G. CRUIKSHANK.

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~Handwriting, The Philosophy of.~ By Don FELIX DE SALAMANCA. With 134 Facsimiles of Signatures.

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~The Art of Dress.~ By Mrs. H. R. HAWEIS, Author of "The Art of Beauty," &c. Illustrated by the Author. Small 8vo, illustrated cover, 1s.; cloth limp, 1s. 6d.

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~The Art of Beauty.~ By Mrs. H. R. HAWEIS, Author of "Chaucer for Children." Square 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, gilt edges, with Coloured Frontispiece and nearly 100 Illustrations, 10s. 6d.

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~History Of Our Own Times~, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P.

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~Hobhouse's The Dead Hand:~ Addresses on the subject of Endowments and Settlements of Property. By Sir ARTHUR HOBHOUSE, Q.C., K.C.S.I.

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~Holmes's The Science of Voice Production and Voice Preservation:~ A Popular Manual for the Use of Speakers and Singers. By GORDON HOLMES, L.R.C.P.E.

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~Hollingshead's (John) Plain English.~

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~Hood's (Thomas) Choice Works, In Prose and Verse.~ Including the CREAM OF THE COMIC ANNUALS. With Life of the Author, Portrait, and Two Hundred Illustrations.

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~Hood's (Tom) From Nowhere to the North Pole:~ A Noah's Arkæological Narrative. With 25 Illustrations by W. BRUNTON and E. C. BARNES.

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~Hook's (Theodore) Choice Humorous Works~, including his Ludicrous Adventures, Bons-mots, Puns, and Hoaxes. With a new Life of the Author, Portraits, Facsimiles, and Illustrations.

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~Horne's Orion:~ An Epic Poem in Three Books. By RICHARD HENGIST HORNE. With a brief Commentary by the Author. With Photographic Portrait from a Medallion by SUMMERS. Tenth Edition.