Wife of the Rev. J. G. Barrow, Missionary in Tristan da Cunha, and fellow-worker with him in that island.
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Saint Oswald: Patron of the C.E.M.S. =ARTHUR C. CHAMPNEYS, M.A.=
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A Jester"s Jingles =F. RAYMOND COULSON=
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Being a Selection from the Writings of the late Ellen Mabel Dawson. They include Allegories and Parables from Nature, Verses and Hymns for the New Year, for Easter, etc.
With the C.L.B. Battalion in France =JAMES DUNCAN=
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With Frontispiece and a most interesting Preface by the REV. EDGAR ROGERS.
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This intensely interesting book gives an account of the doings of the Battalion raised from the Church Lads" Brigade. Among the vivid and striking chapters are: Going to the Front--In France--In Billets--In the Firing Line--The Trenches--The Red Harvest of War, etc.
Lovely Man =G. E. FARROW=
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Dedicated by Special Permission to the Bishop of London.
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A Third Series of these most popular and stirring Ballads. They are seventeen in number, including many of striking general interest; also six remarkable temperance ballads; also three stories, specially written for audiences of men only.
_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._
Gordon League Ballads. =First series.=
Dedicated to H.R.H. the Princess Louise.
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Including "Harry," as recited with such remarkable success by Mrs.
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