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I Am an Omnivorous Reader (SHJ Summer 2019) “I AM AN OMNIVOROUS READER” Book reviews by Lisa Burscheidt, Paul Gillings, David Jones, Paul Thomas Miller, Valerie Schreiner, Nicholas Utechin and Roger Johnson Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle in the Newspapers: commentary and scholarship? I should say that I have an Volume 4, January-June 1894. Edited and Annotated article in this volume. E\ 0DWWLDV %RVWU|P 0DUN$OEHUVWDW /HDK *XLQQ DQG The main point of these — and other such publications 0DWW/DIIH\ Gasogene Books ,QGLDQDSROLV ² LV WR VHH WKH ZRUGV 'R\OH ZURWH RU FURVVHG RXW RU SS SEN ZKDWHYHU ,I \RX FDQQRW IDFH SORXJKLQJ WKURXJK WKH ,ZDQWWRNQRZZKRµ³12%´ZDVIRU,GRQRWOLNH handwritten text, you are given an accurate transcription KLP$FROXPQLVWIRUWKH/RQGRQMRXUQDO The Echo , he and detailed annotations. 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