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Books.

JAMES HACK TUBE.* ONE almost hesitates before bestowing on James Hack Take the hackneyed name " philanthropist," and yet in its true ety- mological meaning no man of our time......

An American In England.* From Every Good Portrait One May

infer much about two persons, the sitter and the artist ; and so from the pleasant record of his rambles in English country places which Mr. Clifton Johnson has put together it......