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JANUARY 2, 1858. BOOKS. BAYLE ST. JOHN'S MONTAIGNE TICE ESSAYIST. * As it is not always the most meritorious men, morally and intel- lectually speaking, who are most successful......

Bayar]) Taylor's Northern Travel. * Mr. Bayard Taylor, As...

correspondent, bids fair to do the world. Within the limits of the Vanity of Human Wishes —" from China to Peru"—he may be said to have done it al- ready, including Japan. He......