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Books.

MISS PARDOE'S FRANCIS THE FIRST. * THIS work has a critical advantage over the writer's Louis the Four- teenth, in its greater wholeness. The materials have been better digested......

Herman Melville's Redburn.* Mr. Melville's Present Work...

remarkable than his stories "founded on fact" descriptive of native scenery and life in the islands of the Pacific. In Typee and Omoo there was novelty and interest of sub-......