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e Heart of Bohemia ('Trilby') Christmas in the Latin Quarter (same) "Dreaming True" ('Peter Ibbetson') Barty Josselin at School ('The Martian') WILLIAM DUNBAR 1465?-1530? 5064 The Thistle and the Rose From 'The Golden Targe' No Treasure Avails Without Gladness JEAN VICTOR DURUY 1811-1894 5069 The National Policy ('History of Rome') Results of the Roman Dominion (same) FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME XII PAGE Javanese Manuscript (Colored Plate) Frontispiece The Alexandrine Manuscript (Fac-simile) xii Old Black-Letter Quarto (Fac-simile) 4726 "Charles I. Going to Execution" (Photogravure) 4730 "The Skater of the Zuyder Zee" (Photogravure) 4758 African Arabic Manuscript (Fac-simile) 4870 John Dryden (Portrait) 4920 Alexandre Dumas (Portrait) 4958 Alexandre Dumas, Fils (Portrait) 5002 VIGNETTE PORTRAITS Denis Diderot Joseph Rodman Drake Franz von Dingelstedt John William Draper Isaac D'Israeli Michael Drayton Austin Dobson Gustav Droz Mary Mapes Dodge Henry Drummond John Donne William Drummond Feodor Dostoevsky Maxime Du Camp A. Conan Doyle George du Maurier Holger Drachmann Jean Victor Duruy [Illustration: _CODEX ALEXANDRINUS._ Fifth Century. British Museum. The Alexandrine Manuscript of the Christian Scriptures is almost complete in both Testaments, the Septuagint version of the Old and the original Greek of the New. It consists of 773 sheets, 12-3/4 by 10-3/4 inches, of very thin gray goatskin vellum, written on both sides in two columns of faint but clear characters. It was made in the early part of the fifth century, under the supervision of Thecla, a noble Christian lady of Alexandria, in the fifth century. It was brought from Alexandria t
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