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Phcenician Ireland is a work of great curiosity and extraordi-

nary learning, by Dr. VILLANUEVA. It is translated by Mr. O'BRIEN, the author of a Prize Essay on the Round Towers of Ireland,—the most remarkable antiquities in the world, if we re- gard the singularity of their construction, the obscurity of their origin, and the difficulty of assigning the object for which they were built. Mr. O'BRIEN has made some discoveries respecting them, it would seem ; and traces the early civilization of his well- beloved Iran to the Budhists of Persia. However this may be, we have been so struck with the learning and plausibility of Dr. VILLANUEVA'S work, that we shall be glad if time and space per- mit us at some future but early day to enter upon a detailed exa- mination of its contents.