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Some French Novels.* It Is A Common Complaint Just Now

in every country that there is no man who can be reckoned exactly in the first class, as far as is shown at least by his present work. We have perhaps a right to plume ourselves......

A Vindication Of Swift.* Cal •ancl Critical &my. By John

Chtuton Cole, at d 6h:11VAILlu?. Mn. COLLINS considers the Dean a greatly maligned man, and it has been his endeavour in this Study to "vindicate the consistency of his......