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    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

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      The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls - Various Various

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      In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898, by Various

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      Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898

      A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

      Author: Various

      Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop

      Release Date: September 7, 2006 [EBook #19203]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online

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      Copyright, 1897, by

      The Great Round World

      Publishing Company.

      The Great Round World

      Published Every Thursday Throughout the Year

      Single Numbers, 5c. Each

      SUBSCRIPTION RATES:

      Special rates are made to schools and to active teachers.

      Numbers are bound up into four parts each year. Charge for binding, 35 cents a part.

      The trade is supplied by the American News Company and its branches.

      Remittances should be by registered letter, or by check, express-order, or postal-order, payable to

      The Great Round World Publishing Co

      .

      No receipts are sent for remittances unless requested. The number on the address label represents the number of the paper with which subscription will expire.

      Ten days' notice should be given of any change of address.

      ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION

      ADDRESS:

      Great Round World Publishing Co.

      3 and 5 West 18th Street, New York City

      At any of the following stores copies and bound volumes of

      The Great Round World

      will be found on sale, and subscribers may exchange their numbers for bound volumes:

      Pictures of

      Mythology

      and

      History

      of .. ..

      Greece

      and Rome

      Being 30 of the

      best examples of

      Greek and Roman

      sculpture..

      JUST THE THING FOR SCHOOLROOM

      DECORATION OR FOR AN AID IN

      TEACHING HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY

      Sold in 6 Parts, (5 PLATES EACH)       -       -    $1.50 a Part

      Arrangements can be made for easy payments, if desired

      The plates are about 15 × 21 inches, and were selected and prepared by Feodor Hoppe with the assistance of the Austrian Royal Imperial Institute of Photography and Reproduction, and are recommended for school use by special order of the Austrian Royal Imperial Ministry of Education.

      Address: The Great Round World Publ. Co.

      3 & 5 West 18th Street               .. .. ..   NEW YORK CITY

      Has never been anything but a delightful publication since the appearance of its first number. For the busy people who cannot read all the periodicals or the family with the limited pocketbook, who can afford only one or two each month, Current Literature is an inestimable blessing, selecting and reprinting, as it does, the best things of the month. There is a charm in the very make-up of the magazine which is altogether

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