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Current Literature.

The Law of Literature. 2 vols. By John Appleton Morgan. (Cockcroft and Co., New York. London : Sampson Low and Co.)—These two stout volumes, containing together more than twelve......

The Dramatic Works Of Moliete. Translated Into English By...

Van Lann. Vol. V. (Edinburgh : William Paterson.)—This fifth volume contains two of the more celebrated of Moliere's plays, L'Avare and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and three minor......

Biographical Annals Of The Civil Government Of The United...

during its First Century. By Charles Lanman. (Washington, U.S.; Anglinn.)—This is a large octavo of nearly seven hundred pages, closely printed in doable columns, containing the......

The Owl's Nest In The City. By Edward Level. (henry

S. King and Co.)—The writer, who adopts as a nom de plume the name of one of the characters of his story, certainly has constructed a tragedy which would have commended itself......

The Crimea And Transcaucasia.*

THE impression which one can hardly help having at first of this work is that it is suspiciously well "got-up." The beauty of the type, the gloss of the paper, the number and......