Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 41 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849.

Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 41 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849.

     “A well conceived and executed work.”—­Ecclesiologist.

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT.  By the Rev. J. A. GILES, D.C.L., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Author of “The History of the Ancient Britons,” &c.

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HISTORY of the ANCIENT BRITONS, From the Earliest Period to the Invasion of the Saxons.  Compiled from the Original Authorities.  By the Rev. J. A. GILES, D.C.L, late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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A HISTORY of the PICTS’ or ROMANO-BRITISH WALL, and the ROMAN STATIONS, and VALLUM, with an Account of their present State, taken during a Pilgrimage along that part of the Island during the month of June, 1849.

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THE BALLAD of EDWIN and EMMA.  By DAVID MALLET.  A New Edition, with Notes and Illustrations, by FREDERICK T. DINSDALE, Esq., LL.D., F.S.A.

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