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Mt 'uncle The Curate. * Fiction In The Sense Of A

story is not altogether the forte of the author of the Falcon Family. Second only to Thackeray, in some respects, as a sketcher of manners and society, his very cleverness as a......

Captain Forbes On The African Blockade. * Although This...

professes to give an account of "six months' service in the African blockade," the suggestions it contains about the slave-trade are drawn from a much wider experience. Captain......