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The Department of Justice and The French in North · America the police of Goueya have inter- dioted the turf lottery promoted and the Reactions on Continental by an English syndicate here in connection with the Lincoln' and Grand National races. A protest has been made by the promotere to the Government,

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possible, thanks to the narrations Havis Davis was one of hundreds or consequences of the work of System in Canada"). at the nerodrome recently to see Old France in Canada. In the "L'Amerique et le Rave exoti- of travellers and missionaries, io famous skymen perform for the chapter on French colonization que dane la Litterature franciee follow their development for benefit of Marcel Desoutter, the written for Seignobos's" Histoire au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siecle" more than a century, and recon

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Nothing is more worthy of your con→. one under each arm, she induced in behind traders and seigneurs"; American "exotism" in French could not be otherwies. Hamel, who has had doge and by whose means "the Church literature of the sixteenth century- erat part of the book takes up they remediod, if neglected may get beyond After a clear introduction, the The trouble that today is small and easi hosideration than the welfare of your eyes as his aerial companions became and remained the great- A further volume on America in

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This history of Canada by lived without prrest or law or Garuru even with the new en king and, most of all. knew no later. Last year he was appoint lightening notes will not satisfy difference between meum and ed Phimian Professor of Astron.all parties, though he was "faith-tuum, seemed to foretall, the most omy at Uamiçidge, and before ful to the end to his Catholio daring theories of Roughead. It that he had bean Chief Assistant faithcad Liberal ideas. He seemed to me worth while inquir at Greenwich Observatory. He does not 863 men and things at was born at Kendal in December, the religious angle only in fact, 1882, and started his successful scarcely, at all but the new notes and appendices furnish material scholastic career at Owen's College, Manchester.

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