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from the same publishers, we also have received Lady Rachel

Russell, by F. P. G. Oeicot ; and Biographical Stories, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, containing short sketches from the lives of Benjamin West, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Franklin, and Queen Christina of Sweden. The scene from John- son's life, to give a specimen, is his refusal to keep his father's book- stall at Uttoxeter, and the penance which he did for his disobedience in after years.