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Books.

THE LIFE OF BAYARD TAYLOR.* SINCE the publication of Mr. Cooke's biography of Emerson we have had no record of a literary career more pleasant in any and every way than this......

Thoreau.* The Name Of Thoreau Has Once More Been Brought

before the English public. Walden has been found popular enough to call for a new edition, and Early Spring ia Massachusetts has been followed by a second volume of similar......