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New Novels.*

AMONG the several fictions before us, three possess some dis- tinctive character, from using moral or religious purposes to set off stories of modern life, although neither of......

Publications Received.

BQOES. FOREMOST in importance among the publications of this week is the long - expected Memoir by the late Sir Robert Peel upon the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act. It •......