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England and Wales. By J. G. Kowa. (Foreign Library.) [This publication completes Kones British travels, by adding England te Ireland and Scotland. The bulk is greater than in those tours; but the book, we think, is inferior to either. It is more statistical, historical, and disquiritional; not perhaps deriving more from guide-books and similar works than his previous journies, but not relieving this matter by so much observation and reflection upon actual life. Part of this substitution of mere description and routine remark for more fresh and lively matter seems really to arise from the mode of travelling principally by railways,-a sorry substitute to the bookmaker for the jaunting-car in Ireland or a walk in Scotland. Something, too, may be put upon the civilization of the country ; which brings matters more down to the level character of STERNE'S worn shillings.] The Brothers. By THEODORE FAY. (Novel Newspaper.) [A homely reprint, in double columns ; but so cheap, that the cost of the novel would not be much more than the circulating-library charge for reading the three-volumed edition, republished in London some twenty months since. A sea-tale is "given in."] The Home ; or Family Cares and Family Joys. By PREDRILL& BREMER. (Smith's Standard Library.) [A continuation of Mr. SMITH'S double-columned edition of PREDRILL BREMER'S novels, purporting to be translated by a Swede expressly for the Standard Library.] Tales from Shakspere. By Mr. and Miss LAMB. Volume IL (Knightil Weekly Volume.) Schlosser's History of the Eighteenth Century, Part V. (Foreign Library.)
ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.
The Beauties of the Opera, Part IV.-The Devil on Two Sticks. [This part is embellished with a striking and animated portrait of FA2H4Y Erssi.En by EDWIN SMITH; who seems to possess the skill and taste of CHALON without his meretricious mannerism : the likeness of the charming danseuse too, unlike most portraits of performers, is faithful to the original.]
Music.
"You told me that you loved me "-Ballad. Written by &MERE M02.• HAM; composed by ANNE BLAKE.
Reminiscences of Burns-Fantasia for the Pianoforte. By RICLEDO LINTER.
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