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Books.

CURTIUS'S HISTORY OF GREECE.* CTROTE'S History and the various manuals compiled out of it may seem to many persons to make any new narrative of Grecian his- tory unnecessary.......

Mr. Maidment's Scottish Ballads.*

Mn. MAIDMENT'S two volumes, containing over a hundred of the more ancient and popular ballads and songs of the North, are in- tended by him as an accompaniment to the works of......