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Three Novels By Ladies.* " Would You Desire At This

day," says De Quincey, in his queer, rambling, scrambling essay on " Style," " to read our noble language in its native beauty, picturesque from idiomatic propriety, racy iu its......

The British Constitution As It Is.* Sir William Anson, Whose

book on the law of contract is well known to lawyers as an admirably concise and scientific exposition of the subject, has attempted in this book to do for the law of the......