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M. Turguenief's "liza.".

THE literature which aims at the delineation of real life is of all orders, ranging from the very frontier of the higher poetry to the very frontier of matter-of-fact chronicle......

Miry Queen Of Scots.* Although Mary, Queen Of Scots, Has

been dead for nearly three centuries, the narrative of what some writers deem her misfortunes, and other writers her crimes, retains its freshness and interest still. Men......