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Donkersley 21967 [Subtitle: A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/9/6/21967 ] [Files: 21967.txt; 21967-h.htm] Propos de ville et propos de théâtre, by Henry Murger 21966 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/9/6/21966 ] [Files: 21966-8.txt; 21966-0.txt; 21966-h.htm] Preventable Diseases, by Woods Hutchinson 21965 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/9/6/21965 ] [Files: 21965.txt; 21965-8.txt; 21965-h.htm] The Short-story, by William Patterson Atkinson 21964 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/9/6/21964 ] [Files: 21964.txt; 21964-8.txt; 21964-h.htm] Halsey & Co., by H. K. Shackleford 21963 [Subtitle: or, The Young Bankers and Speculators] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/9/6/21963 ] [Files: 21963.txt; 21963-h.htm] Harvard Classics Volume 28, by Various 21962 [Subtitle: Essays English and American] [Editor: Charles W. 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