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Fires on Trans-Atlantic Steamers

by Earl De le Warr

The North American Review, February 1892, pp. 161-167

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    6. The Darker Side by Lady Henry Somerset, pp. 64-68
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    1. How to Attack the Tariff by W.M. Springer, pp. 129-137
    2. A Claim for American Literature by W. Clark Russell, pp. 138-149
    3. Can Our National Banks Be Made Safer? by Edward S. Lacey, pp. 150-160
    4. Fires on Trans-Atlantic Steamers by Earl De le Warr, pp. 161-167
    5. The Duty and Destiny of England in India by Sir Edwin Arnold, pp. 168-188
    6. A Perilous Business and the Remedy by Henry Cabot Lodge, pp. 189-195
    7. A Year of Railway Accidents by H.G. Prout, pp. 196-208
    8. The Opera by Edmund C. Stanton, pp. 209-224
    9. Tammany Hall and the Democracy by Richard Croker, pp. 225-230
    10. The Olympian Religion by W.E. Gladstone, pp. 231-241
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    13. The Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Henry W. Lucy, pp. 245-250
    14. Railroad Consolidation by Gen. John Gibbon, pp. 251-253
    15. Sunday at the World's Fair by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pp. 254-256
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    1. Issues of the Presidential Campaign by James McMillan, pp. 257-260
    2. --- by Benton McMillin, pp. 261-264
    3. --- by Frank Hiscock, pp. 265-267
    4. --- by R.P. Bland, pp. 268-270
    5. --- by Eugene Hale, pp. 271-272
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    15. An International Monetary Conference by W.M. Springer, pp. 336-342
    16. The Highlands of Jamaica by Lady Blake, pp. 343-352
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    18. Our Commercial Relations with Chili by Wm. Eleroy Curtis, pp. 359-364
    19. The Olympian Religion by W.E. Gladstone, pp. 365-376
    20. Consumption at Health Resorts by W.F. Chappell, pp. 377-379
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    22. Values and Wages in Mexico by M. Romero, p. 382
    23. Flying Machines by Julien St. Botolphe, pp. 383-384
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    2. A Southerner on the Negro Question by Thomas Nelson Page, pp. 401-413
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