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Lectures On The History Of England.* Ma. Longman Needed No

better apology than his book for his intrusion on the field of authorship. It is a very good in- stance how much a sensible man may do in a department not peculiarly his own by......

Victor Hugo's Life.*

THE present publication carries the biography of the great con- temporary French poet to the period of his admission to the French Academy in 1841, thus completing, the writer......