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HENRY IV. AND MARIE DE MEDICI.* THESE two volumes form only the second instalment of this work, the first part of which was published early last year. Part II. begins with t he......

The New Danish Novel.*

Namara's criticism on Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" that it re- sembled "a menagerie of tame animals," is more or less true of almost all the remarkable German and Danish novels......