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Literary Announcements.

nooks IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOIL PUBLICATION. The second volume of Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe from the Peace of Utrecht, by Lord John Russell, will appear in a few......

Gleanings.

A GENEROUS Ttum.—The Sultana Asma, sister of Mustapha III., pre- sented to him one of her young slaves, who, besides her rare personal beauty, was possessed of great natitral......

The Universities.

CAIIIBIt/DGE, January 2.—The Hulsean Prize for the last year has been adjudged to Mr. Andrew Watson, of 'Catharine for his dissertation on the following subject : " [low far......

The Books Of The Season.

LITERARY SPECTATOR. SITTING by the - fireside, between as it were two years, the old and the new, at twelve o'clock at night on the 31st of December ; listen- ing, pen in hand,......