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FREDERIRL BREMER'S IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. * THE leading characteristic of this book of letters from America is personal. There are elaborate descriptions of scenery, but the......

Hardwick's Middle Age Of The Caunca.• There Is In History,

as Reynolds says there is in art, a classical style, which is founded on general nature, and presents the essen- tial spirit of things in the most finished manner ; and of this......