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Books.

SIR HENRY MAINE.* FEW of our public men have the literary taste and skill of Sir Mountstnart Grant-Duff, and his wide acquaintance with men and affairs. His powerful memory and......

Recent Novels.*

Mn. WILLIAM BLACK'S new novel has something of the panoramic quality—given by a constantly shifting background — of The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton ; and we recognise our......