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N Ew Novels.

THERE is vigorous stirring life from the beginning to the end of Mr. Henry Kingsley's novel ; and how indeed shouldit beotherwise, when he has got among his dramatis persome......

Books.

M. ABOUT ON THE HOMAN QUESTION. * MANY things besides the opportuneness of its subject have con- - spired to secure an unusually eager reception for M. About's new work. His......

Allibone's Dictionary Of British And American Authors. *

Wir.A.rsvkit oversight in plan or occasional errors in execution may be discovered in this gigantic undertaking by "the critic eye, that microscope of wit," the book should be......