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Memoirs Of Mrs. °pie. * Mits. Omr Was One Of That

band of writers who stood between the 'weakness or unnatural fantasies of the circulating-library fic- tionists of the old school, and the historical romance of Scott or the......

Tahartine's Memoirs Of Celebrated Characters. *

HITHERTO Lamartine's best works have been productions of the imagination on legitimate subjects as poems, or the result of ob- servation, as in his travels, or narrative history......

Publications Received.

Boom Siluria. The History . of the Oldest Known Rocks containing Organic Remains, with a brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold over the Earth. By Sir Roderick Impey......