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—The Cow; The Horse; The Chamois; The Camel; The Reindeer; The Dog; The Monkey; The Polar Bear; The Buffalo; The Goat; The Wolf; The Beaver; The Squirrel; The Tiger; The Elephant; The Sheep; The Ermine; The Lion; The Seal; The Stag; The Hyena; The Hog; The Hare; The Cat.

Everybody has felt the want of a reliable guide in selecting books for their library. In this little manual, the author has endeavored first, in a preliminary essay, to point out how to read books to the best advantage, and how to buy them; second, what books to buy, by giving lists of some fifteen hundred volumes of standard works, such as are necessary to every well-selected library; these are given with the number of volumes, the best and different editions, and the prices. It thus forms a complete and intelligent guide, as to what is best to buy first, such as every person of any pretensions to literary taste should possess.

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