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Autobiography Of The Late Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart....

—This is an interesting little work. Somebody has said that any one may write a readable book who will only tell the truth about himself, his feel- ings, and his doings. This......

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THESE two novels, though widely unlike in plot, composition, and style, are based upon substantially the same motives of human action. In each of them the heroine voluntarily......

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Remarks On The Sonnets Of Shakespeare, With The Sonnets,...

that- they belong to the Hermetic class of writings, and explaining their gene- ral meaning and purpose. (New York : James Miller.)—The character of this work is sufficiently......