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Books.

LUCILE. * LUCILE has disappointed us. We like neither its substance nor its form. It is the epic of a used-up, sophisticated society. The true moral, it has been said, of......

A New Dilitvian Theory. * Mr. Bergh's Essay On Periodic...

presents a new theory of the mode in which those great alternations of submerg- ence and emergence were effected, which the solid portion of the earth's surface is known to have......

Wanderings In Brittany. * A Pleasantly Written And...

of travel in the legendary land of Brittany will be read with interest, not only by the fair inquirers for whose instruction it is more particularly in- tended, and who wish to......