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Books.

KAYE'S HISTORY OF TETE WAR IN AFGICANDSTAN. * IT was remarked by Voltaire, that the advantage of the ancient over the modern historians consisted in this—the ancients confined......

Pictures And Picture-gallery.

17th November 1851. Sm—As you have taken up the subject of a new building for a National Gallery, I venture to address a few lines to you, in hope of calling through you the......

Want Of Oreat Men Taxatiox.

Son—It is said that great oecasionsproduce great men. How far this rule is true it is not necessary here to inquire ; but, accepting- it to be so, certain it is that it forms no......