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HISTORY, AND SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

Handbook of Dates. By HENRY CLINTON BROWN. 12 mo. Cloth. viii+182 pp. Price.....

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Arranged alphabetically and chronologically, comprising all the important events from the earliest ages to within the present decade.

Political Economy for American Youth. By J. HARRIS PATTON.
Cloth. viii+298 pp. Price......

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It advocates the adoption and maintenance of an economic system suited to American conditions, while at the same time recognizing at their full value commercial and industrial relations with foreign nations. The principles advanced are re-enforced by citations from our national history.

The Eight Hours Day. By SIDNEY WEBB and HAROLD COX. 12 mo. viii+280 pp. Paper covers.

Price.

The question is discussed in its historical, economic, and social aspects, and contains a bibliography for further research.

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Civics for Young Americans. By Wм. M. GIFFIN and H. G. PROVINES. Large 12 mo. 132 pp. With an illustration. Cloth. Price 70 The author shows in a strikingly novel and interesting way, and in language intelligible to a ten-year-old boy, the necessity of government, the different forms of government, and the advantages of our government over all others.

Civil Government. By R. E. CLEMENT. 12 mo.

232 pp.

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Cloth. xiv+

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A brief and lucid treatise on the Federal Constitution, and the Colonial, Revolutionary and Confederate Governments which preceded it.

For sale by all booksellers, or sent by mail. postpaid, on receipt of the price. PARKER P. SIMMONS, Successor to A. LOVELL & CO.,

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Vaschus Nunnez * * * gathered an armye of a hundreth fourescore and tenne men. *** marched forwarde with his armye towarde the mountaynes, by the conducte of certeyne guydes and labourers which Poncha had gyuen hym, as well to leade hym the way, as also to cary his baggages and open the straightes through the desolate places and craggy rockes full of the dennes of wylde beastes. *** By the helpe therfore of theyr guydes and labourers, with owre carpenters, he passed ouer the horrible mountaynes and many greate ryuers lyinge in the way, ouer the which he made brydges eyther with pyles or trunkes of trees. From the palaice of kynge Poncha, to the prospect of the other south sea, is only syxe dayes iorney: the which neuerthelesse by reaso of many hynderances and chaunces, and especially for lacke of vytayles, he coulde accomplyshe in noo lesse then. xxv. dayes. But at the length, the seuenth daye of the calendes of October, he behelde with woonderinge eyes the toppes of the hygh mountaynes shewed vnto hym by the guydes of Quarequa, from the whiche he myght see the other sea soo longe looked for, and neuer seene before of any man commynge owte of owre worlde. Approchinge therefore to the toppes of the mountaynes, he commaunded his armye to stey, and went him selfe alone to the toppe, as it were to take the fyrst possession therof. Where, faulynge prostrate vppon the grounde, and raysinge hym selfe ageyne vpon his knees as is the maner of the Christians to pray, lyftynge vppe his

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