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Ho:siore De Balzac.* English Readers Will Be Glad That...

letters are made ac- cessible to them. They could not expect that the correspondence of Balzac, though sure to be interesting, would contain much that was new. He was not one of......

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SCHOOL BOOKS, ETC.—Livy, Books X XI. and XXII., Hannibal's First Campaign in Italy. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Maps, by the Rev. W. W. Capes. (Macmillan.)......