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Books.

A SHORT HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE.* A BOOK of this kind, dealing with a large and varied subject within narrow limits, and intended chiefly to subserve educa- tional......

Poetry.

TWO EPITAPHS. I" Memento mori," "Gedenke zu Loben."] "Think of Death !" the gravestones say,— " Peace to Life's mad. striving !" But the churchyard daisies,—" Nay, Think of......