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The Cotton Trade In The Confederate States. By G. Mchenry.

(Saun- ders, Otley, and Co.)—In ill-arranged, ill-writton book, of which the name is misleading. We find in it a justification of secession, a jus- tification of slavery, and of......

An English Grammar. By Alexander Bain, M.a., Professor Of...

in the University of Aberdeen. (Longman and Co.)—An admirable little book, intended by the author for his own class of students of English composition, but well worth perusal by......

Elements Of Arithmetic. By M. C. Briot. Translated By J.

Spear, Esq. (with the author's permission). (London : Robert Hardwicke.)— An admirable book ; on the whole very well translated. It WAS a great mistake, we think, to translate......

Nautical Dictionary. By Arthur Young, Assisted In Tho...

by James Brisbane. (Longman and Co.)—A second edition of this valuable work, which is mainly confined to definition, but by no means shirks the duty of giving general......

Report Of Proceedings At The Seventh Annual Congress Of The

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held in Edinburgh, October, 1863. (W. P. Nimmo.)—A reprint from the Scots man news- paper of the addresses of the......

Cultrent Literature.

ful and characteristic letters in their English dress (already reviewed in our columns in the original German). The translation seems to be very faithful alld conscientious. A......

Thc English At Home. Third Series. By Alphonse Esquires....

by Sir Lascelles Wraxall. (Chapman and Hall.)—Another instalment of these pleasant, gossiping, superficial sketches, which are, perhaps, hardly equal to the two preceding. And......

(boston, John L. Shorey.)—a Temperate Legal Treatise On...

by an accomplished Massachnssets lawyer. The most striking part to an English lawyer, is that in which he states that a judgment of the Supreme Court on the true construction of......

Choir D'opuscules, Philosophigues, Historigues,...

de Weyer. Premiere sdrie. (Triibner and Co.)—It would not be easy to over-praise this charming little volume. The Belgian Ambassador is the gentlest, most polished, and......

Vincenzo.*

Mu. RIMINI is one of the few writers who have successfully mastered the difficulty of writing in a language which • vismuo ; oe, Betaken Boas. By Juba MAW. /anemia= and co,......