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LETTERS of the DUKE OF WELLINGTON | LIFE OF JOHN DAVIS, Navigator, 1550-1605. TO MISS J., 1834-1851.

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At the time Miss J.'s correspondence with the Duke of Wellington opened she was a very beautiful woman, about twenty years of age. A woman of deeply devotional nature, she felt she had been especially called of God to do a great work. Looking around her for an object, her attention was drawn to the Duke of Wellington. The Duke was at this time (1834) a man sixty-five years old. He was in the prime of strength and health. He had now been a widower for three years.

CONSUELO.

By GEORGE SAND. Translated from the French by FRANK H. POTTER. 4 vols., 12mo, cloth, full gilt, $6.00; half calf, $12.00; half levant, $15.00. A small number of large-paper copies at $13.50 per set.

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