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Con- ORTHOGRAPHY AND ORTHOEPY. Cloth, 128 pages. Price, prepaid, 50c. Introduction, $4.80 a doz., prepaid TREASURED THOUGHTS. A literary Gem-Book. Cloth, 160 pages. Price, prepaid, 50c. Light-blue cloth with gold stamp, price, prepaid. 75c. Name on back of book in gold for 25c extra 3 Books-One $1.25 book and two soc books, prepaid, $2,00 2 Books-One $1.25 book and one 50c book, prepaid, $1.60 Address all orders to the author, All 4 Books $3 FRANK V. IRISH, 315 Wabash Av., Chicago, Ill. Endorsement of Irish's American and British Authors. Accept my thanks for the copy of American and British Authors, "and my hearty congratulations on the excellence of the work. I like the spirit of the book quite as well as its matter or method, believing, as I do, that a love for good literature is a more important result of school training than a knowledge of authors or even of their works. 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