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The Fern Paradise.* Two Londoners, Mr. Ward, Of Wellclose...

and Mr. R. Warington, of Apothecaries' Hall, have laid nature-lovers under deep obligation by the invention of the fern-case and the aquarium. By the former contrivance, we are......

Books.

THE LIFE OF GEORGE COMBE.* Moss: who are old enough to have been acquainted with the current topics of forty or fifty years ago will remember the sensa- tion caused by the......

Molly Ba Wn.*

THE author of Phyllis has chosen a larger canvas this time, and filled it with a greater number of figures. By her more ambitious effort she does not disappoint the expectations......