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SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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year in the library of the Belfast Natural History and Philo- sophimd Society by the Rev. F. W. O'Connell, who now edits it, with notes and a translation prepared in collaboration with Professor R. M. Henry. The work was written by Father Manus O'Donnell, an Irish student at Salamanca in 1694, and is "a fresh example of the pathetic devotion to learning which, amid obstacles that might almost have seemed insurmountable, marked the Irish nation."