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Books.

DE BONNECHOSE'S HISTORY OF FRANCE.* "THE history of France," said Napoleon I., "must be written in two volumes, or in a hundred." M. Emile de Bonnechose, mind- ful of the......

A Summer In Iceland.*

Jr is worth while to read this book on Iceland. Yet the subject will scarcely commend itself to a very wide audience, unless indeed the present excessive heat invests Jiikulls......