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Books.

WIVES AND DAUGHTERS4 a. GASKELL'S last book is certainly, Cranford excepted, her best ; and absolutely her best if we are to consider a larger and more complex design, somewhat......

Mr. Dicey On French And American Troops.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your New York correspondent's letter of the week before last, I read with astonishment the following statement :—" If that were true"......

William Whewell.

Nov all in vain some mountain range majestic Even to meanest souls and dullest eyes Stands manifested. Lights and shadows mystic, Innumerable, rain'd down from the skies ; The......