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British Novelists. * Professor Masson Has Ascertained,...

the British Museum and from other sources, that in the year 1820, when the Waverley Novels were at the height of their popularity, there were,published in these islands......

Travels In Central And Western America. * Fox Once We Have

lighted upon that literary rarity, a writer of a book of travels who tells us too little about himself. Most mo- dern travellers err in the opposite way, and in a degree pretty......