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These chapters have already appeared in various newspapers where their lack of style may not have been so evident as in the present book form. (Lee & Shepard, Boston. $1.50.) HALF the set of Captain Marryat's works that Little, Brown & Co. (Boston) is issuing is now ready with The Pacha of Many Tales, Mr. Midshipman Easy and Japhet in Search of a Father the three volumes for the month. The beauty and convenient size of the volumes adds a new enjoyment to the contents which delights us as it did when first we read them. The set will be complete in fourteen volumes. AN atlas intended for use as a reference book in the hands of the young student is Alex. E. Frye's "Home and School Atlas," the maps and charts reprinted from the author's Complete Geography. The maps show more than ten thousand names, all of which are indexed so as to be located quickly by initial and number, as in Black and other larger works. 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