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Waitaruna: A Story of New Zealand Life

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Oberammergau Passion Play . See "Art in the Mountains."

O'Brien . See "Parliamentary History" and "Irish Land Question."

Old-Fashioned Girl . See Alcott .

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Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism . By J. E. H. Gordon, B.A. With about 200 coloured, full-page, and other Illustrations. Among the newer portions of the work may be enumerated: All the more recent investigations on Striæ by Spottiswoode, De la Rue, Moulton, &c., an account of Mr. Crooke's recent researches; full descriptions and pictures of all the modern Magnetic Survey Instruments now used at Kew Observatory; full accounts of all the modern work on Specific Inductive Capacity, and of the more recent determination of the ratio of Electric units (v). In respect to the number and beauty of the Illustrations, the work is quite unique. 2 vols., 8vo, 36s.

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