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Parties To Actions.*

AT first sight, nothing seems clearer than the mechanism of an action at law, or the method of recovering by legal process a debt that is owing, or the compensation due for an......

Crrwksrs For Christmas. By E. Knatehimil-hugessem M.p....

gives us here a second volume of the same kind as was his "Stories for my Children," which we noticed at length last year. The best of the stories is, we think, " The History of......

Current Literature.

There is still a gleaning to be gathered up of "Christmas Books," or books which may be conveniently described by this title ; which, like the shooting stars, appear......