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Books.

DANA'S RIIN TO CUBA. * IT was on a dull, dark day of February in the present year that our excellent friend, the author of " Two Years before the Mast," left behind him the mud,......

A Charitable Suggestion.

4, Lyon's Inn, Strand, July 12, 1859. Stn,—The age in which we live is characterized by its desire to prevent any unnecessary shortening of life, and if more has not been done......

The Occasional.

By LEIGH HUNT. No. XIV. Sulu= or " Yomeo OLD erAnismeir " commie:um. Perseverance in spite of failures—Tutors themselves not always discerning—Robert Bruce, the spider, and the......