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Dodd's Beauties of Shakespeare. (Bickers.)—A beautifully printed edition of this

old collection, bound in morocco in pocket-book form, and intended for lovers of the poet to carry constantly with them. There is nothing now to be said about the collection, which has never ceased to be popular for a century ; but nothing can be better or more con- venient than its present dress, which the compiler, who, if we recollect right, was hanged in full professional costume, would have:entirely approved.