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Emerson's English Traits. *

THESE essays on England and the English, for au& the "Traits" really are originated in two visits to this country : the first a passing Call so long ago as 1833, at the end of a......

Mrs. Stowe's Dred. * It Is Obvious That No Future Novel

by Mrs. Stowe could excite the interest of Uncle Tom's Cabin ; for it must want the element of surprise which that fiction possessed when it startled the reading world. Neither......

Books.

CA YLET'S EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1 8 4 8.* TILE failure of Democracy on the Continent of Europe to esta- blish Republican or even Representative Government, and the apparent......