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Dickens In Elegant Extracts.* Ix Is Not Very Easy To

conjecture what was Mr. Kent's object in setting himself his latest literary task. True, there has of late years been a revival of the taste for what used to be called in the......

A History Of The Bar.* Under Cover Of Writing A

history of the Serjeants-at-Law, whom he poetically designates as the "Order of the Coif," Mr. Serjeaut Pulling has given us a discourse on the antiquities of the pro- fession......