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Letters from Italy and Switzerland. Third Edition. By Felix Mendels-

sohn Bartholdy.—Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847. New Edition. Translated by Lady Wallace. (Longman and Co.)— The substance of these volumes needs no further word from criticism. Tho first has long been before the world ; the nature of the contents of the second was stated in a paper which will be found at p. 2551 of the Spectator for last year. Lady Wallace's part of the work is admirably performed, and the two volumes form a capital autobiography of one of the loftiest and purest spirits of this or any other time,—too pure- and lofty, we fear, to meet with popular appreciation.