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Books.

M. RENAN'S LIFE OF JESUS.* Tuts is no common book. To us, indeed, it seems the attempt to create, by the aid of great learning and greater imagination, a mighty phantom in the......

M. Houdin On Cardsharping.*

" ECIAIREZ lea dupes ; il n'aura pas des fripons," is the motto on the title-page of the volume before us, and the practice/ adoption of Montesquieu's simple method for the......