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Memoir of H.R.S. the Princess Alexandra of Denmark. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—In the name of that large section of the public who hold the Court news to be, after the births, deaths, and marriages, the most interesting part of a newspaper, we feel it our duty to protest against this volume. Confiding people will take it up eagerly, relying on its title and external appearance, and will expect to gather from it a quantity of gossiping details respecting the manners and customs of the Danish princess, from the earliest period to the present day ; and we can fancy their feelings when they discover that they have laid out their shilling in a collection of rather dry, though, possibly, highly valuable information respecting the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- Ilueltsburg. It may even be doubted whether the advertisements of a.. ving-machines, baby-linen, and such like attractive articles, which are appended to the book, will be sufficient to make up for this sore dis- appointment. The compiler of the volume must be a bold, as well as a heartless creature, to play so reprehensible a trick upon the women of England.
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