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Books.

PRESCOTT'S PHILIP THE SECOND.* Tins third volume of Mr. Prescott's history contains three sec- tions, each possessing much matter and considerable interest in different ways.......

John Brown's Genuine Autobiography.* It Is Idle To...

adventures alone constitute the adven- turer. Character makes the man, not condition or circumstances. • Sixty Years' Gleanings from Life's Harrest. A Genuine Autobiography. By......

Captain Medley's Year's Campaigning In India.*

THE world has already had the clergyman's narrative of the siege of Delhi in Mr. Rotton's book, and the civilian's in Mr. Great- hed's Letters. The present volume furnishes the......