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B Ooks.

THE LIFE OF MAHOMMED. 3 To say that these volumes complete the best life of Mahommed ex- tant in English, is, perhaps, but feeble praise. England has supplied her fair quota of......

A Half-poet And A Pseudo-poet.*

NEITHER of these books indicates any very conspicuous merit. The latter of them is, as Lord John Russell says, conspicuous by its ab- sence, nay, conspicuous by the presence of......