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Cupid And The Sphinx. By Harford Flemming. 3 Vols. (samuel

Tinsley.)—Readers must not be frightened away from this novel by a grotesque title. They will see, indeed, if they get as far as the preface, that this same title is not so......

Current Literature.

POSTRY. — Plays and Poems. By R J. Gilman. (E. Faithfull.)— The plays are so much better than the poems, that it seems a pity the latter were added. In the former, the......

Victoria.*

THERE is something almost painfully unromantic in the short history of the great new world of the South. Discovered but the other clay, this aggregation of nineteenth-century......