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Three Novels. * Life's Lesson Is An American Fiction,...

exhibiting some curious points in American manners, though we do not precisely seize the " lesson " in life it inculcates,—unless it be that a domes- tic hero should not fail in......

Greece By Hermann Hettner. * Discaremorr, Archteology,...

and prospects of Modern Greece, are the topics of Hermann Hettners book. The descriptions are somewhat overdone ; or rather, like most descrip- tions, they are deficient in......

Books.

THE CHEVALIER BUNSEN ON EGYPT'S PLACE IN UNIVERSAL HISTORY. * US first volume of this elaborate work was chiefly occupied in chalking out the plan and purpose of the whole......