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llaydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Edited by Benjamin

Vincent. (Meson and Co.)—This is the sixteenth edition of this useful and valuable book of reference, or as the editor has gradu- ally succeeded in making it, a dated cyelopdia, and digested summary of almost every department of human history, corrected up to the 18th of October, 1878. The now features include chronological tables, the literary, scientific, topographical, and geographical facts that have occurred since the last publication, and a dated index. The book is so complete and full of information, that if it found, as it should do, a place in every mechanics' institute or library, it would lesson consider- ably the labour of those whose duty it is to answer in newspapers the questions of readers and correspondents.