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as it progresses."--_N. Y. Evening Post._
_James MacArthur, of Harper's Weekly, says_: "I am delighted with
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_Joseph B. Gilder, of The Critic, says_: "I look to see it take its
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character delineation."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
_Miss Bacon, Literary Editor of The Booklover's Library, says_: "Of all
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own."
"Norman Duncan's novel is a great enterprise, and will probably
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Canada."--_Toronto Globe._
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_Denizens of the Deep_
_By_ FRANK T. BULLEN
There is a new world of life and intelligence opened to our knowledge in
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sea folk and, as _The Saturday Times-Review_ has said, worth a dozen
novels.
[Illustration: DENIZENS OF THE DEEP. FRANK T. BULLEN.]
Not the least attractive feature of an unusually attractive volume is
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_By_ MARGARET SANGSTER _Cloth, each, $1.50_
_Janet Ward_
_Eleanor Lee_
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[Illustration: JANET WARD BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.]
_Essays_ _Fiction_
_By_ JAMES M. LUDLOW
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[Illustration: DEBORAH. JAMES M. LUDLOW.]
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