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Places And People.* We Cannot Conceive What Is The Value

of papers on every imagin- able topic of social gossip about humble life in London, of which five-sevenths of the book before us consists ; papers not aimed at exposing or......

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CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Sacred Allegories. By the Rev. W. Adams. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Adams' beautiful allegories are worthy of all the honour which can be done to them by illustration......