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A Popular History of America. By Fli , obeth Cooper. (Longman and

00.)—This excellent little work includes South America as well as North, and is written with singular clearness, and so far as we have been able to test it, accuracy, and considering the extreme condensation which its plan necessitated, it is even light reading. As a school-book or book of reference it will be most 'useful.