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Life And Times Of Francesco Sforza. * Tile Life Of Francesco

Sforza is selected by Mr. Pollard Urquhart to illustrate the condition of Italy in the fifteenth century. To render more intelligible the state of Italian politics at that time,......

Ivar, Or The As.juta - Box.*

Tits expectations raised by the opening of this novel are not main- - tained. It begins with vigorous and powerful pictures of the peasant indignant against the higher classes......

Shaw's Ramble In Australia And New Zealand..

A GOOD portion of this not very large volume consists of a "ram- ble" through Colonial newspapers, &c. with scissors in hand, or of a condensed -view of the matter of......