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BY

S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE,

AUTHOR OF "A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS."

“Back'd his opinion with quotations.”—PRIOR.

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STILL IN THE FULL POSSESSION OF HIS VIGOROUS AND WELL-CULTIVATED

INTELLECT,

IN HIS NINETY-FOURTH YEAR,

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S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8, 1873.

By the verdict of Hon. CHARLES SUMNER, LL.D., of the Boston Bar, and Hon. William M. Evarts, LL.D.,

of the New York Bar, verbally expressed to the writer.