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An American Ambassador's Private View Of England.*

WE are afraid we cannot take the view of the letters collected in the volume before us which the writer and his friends were inclined to hold. The bulk of them were the......

Current Literature.

An Historical Exposition of the Book of Daniel. By W. H. Rule, D.D. (Soeleys.)—Dr. Rule's book seems to be the work of considerable industry and knowledge. He gives full......

Hunting, Steeple-chasing, And Racing Scenes....

by J. Hewitt. (Peddie.)—The frontispiece repre- sents Tattersall's where is centred, the editor tells, the interest of the three great sports. But he speaks of it only as a......

Chronic Bronchitis. By E. Headlam Greenhow, M.d....

here publishes some clinical lectures which he delivered at the Middlesex Hospital. By clinical—literally, bedside—it is to be understood that the lectures were delivered on the......