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Books.

THE LAND OF THE AURORA BOREALIS.* THESE are very valuable and very enjoyable volumes, yet in one respect rather provoking also. The reader of them has but to refresh his memory......

A French Officer's Notes On The Siege Of Paris.*

No book, not even.the Diary of a Besieged Resident, gives a more graphic series of etchings of scenes in Paris during the FrancoPrussian war than this journal. Count d'H6risson......