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The Provost of Paris, " a Tale of the Court

of Charles the Sixth," by WILLIAM S. BROWNING, who has already written the History of the Huguenots, is an historical novel, turning upon the very interesting events of the annals of Paris in the fourteenth century. We wish we could say that the subject is well treated : but truth obliges us to declare, that the author is deficient in_ those qualities which ought to go to the composition of a novelist. He has mistaken his vocation ; but, seeing that be is an assiduous reader of the documents of history, we would suggest that he ;might do himself more credit by a genuine historical compilation.