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Mr. Reade's Medleval Novel.*

Mn. READE'S somewhat impudent genius has achieved a great success in this book. He has shown that he carries weight well; nay, that he is greatly the better for working up......

Mr Olmsted On Tile Slave States.* Tam Book Is A

compendious recast of Mr. Olmsted's invaluable volumes on the Slave States—volumes full of acute, pithy, and signi- ficant delineations which bear in every line the stamp of an......