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"babble Brook" Songs. By J. H. M'nanghton. (0. Ditson And

Co., of Boston.)—The author has sent this volume from America, because "the blare of the bugle and the jar of the cannon have well-nigh drowned in that unhappy land the......

Current Literature.

Things New and 01t1 Meditations in Verse on Solemn Subjects (F. Algar.)—The old things we see, but not the new. Even the groat dogma announced in the note, that "it is clear......

The Magazines.

Macmillan has the best paper this month, or at least the one which has interested us the most,—an exquisite little sketch of " Nathaniel Hawthorne," by Mr. Edward Dicey. The......

Petersburg And Warsaw. By Augustin P. O'brien. (r....

writer gives us the narrative of what he himself saw and heard in these two capitals last year, and while he admits that the Russians carried out military law with groat......

Spirit Drawings. A Personal Narrative. By W. M....

edition. (F. Pitman.)—This gentleman tells us that soon after the death of one of his sons his wife and he wore endowed with a strange power. If they sat down to a table with a......