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Books.

ALEC FORBES OF HOWGLEN.* Tins is Mr. Macdonald's best book,—equal in many parts to the first volume of David Elginbrod, and sustained, which David Elginbrod was not, nearly at......

The South Before And After The War.

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, June 17, 1865. 'DEE dull placidity of the past week was hardly ruffled by the arrest on Wednesday of John Mitchell—your John—who,......