2 JANUARY 1864, page 40

Royal Family Alliances.

M ONSEEUR, mon frere," and "Madame, ma scour," were the superscriptions of thirty-nine letters which the Emperor Napoleon despatched some seven weeks ago to all t. e crowned......

Books.

CAPTAIN SPEKE'S AFRICAN JOURNEY.* IT is not easy to say why, when any small portion of the world has for a long series of centuries shown so little activity of mind and even of......