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Miss Paakes's Songs And Ballads.*

Miss PAEKES has taste, feeling, and simplicity, and yet her verses, though they are often natural and sometimes hover on the verge of poetry, very seldom cross the boundary.......

Political Economy And The Gold Dis- Coveries.* It Is Not

easy to speak too favourably of Mr. Fawcett's Manual of Political Economy, which is both sound and lucid, compendious and yet interesting. It proceeds from a disciple of Mr.......