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We have the pleasure of commending to the favourable notice

of our readers the third volume of an excellent series, Short Biographies for the People. By Various Writers. (Religious Tract Society.)— The twelve subjects chosen for this are Sir Philip Sidney, Wilber. force, Wesley, Lord Shaftesbury, Chrysostom, Howard the reformer of prisons, Robert Morrison (Chinese missionary and linguist), King Alfred, Judson of Burnish, Lord Bacon, Whitefield, and Bacon the sculptor. •