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| Title | The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 40; Volume 113 |
| Editor | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Contributor | George Smith |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder and Company, 1916 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2007 |
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