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In Substance, The Hall And The Manor-house, Like So Many

other of our fictions, is derived from the circulating library ; but variety is given to an oft-presented idea by ingenuity and invention, rather than, it strikes us, by much......

The Statistics Of Coal, By Richard Cowling Taylor,...

im- mense amount of specific facts and general information connected with the subject of fossil fuel and mineral combustibles, or indeed combustibles of any kind. Mr. Taylor......

We Have Received A Letter From Mr. Pridham, The Author

of An His- torical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon, describing the short notice of hie book in the Spectator of the 10th instant, as "re. markable for exemplifying......

Who Shall Say That America Is To Seek In-poetry, When

Mr. Rufus Wil- mot Griswold, the compiler of The Female Poets of America, can find nearly a hundred of the gentler sex from whom to select elegant extracts ? A few of them, no......

Publications Received.

BOOKS. A History of the Sikhs, from Hie Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej. By Joseph Davy Cunningham, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Cap- tain to the Army of......