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The English in South America. By Michael G. Mulhall. (Stan-

ford.)—The odd, uncomfortable, foreign type in which this book is printed (at Buenos Ayres) makes it unattractive ; but there is a good deal in it worth reading, and the general view which it affords of the history of the South-American Republics is easily taken in and instruc- tive. English, French, and Dutch Guiana are not included in the scope of the work, being, according to the author, " insignificant colonies," a dictum in which their inhabitants would by no means concur.