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Books.

RUSTOW'S WAR FOR THE RLILVE FRONTIER.* CONTEMPORARY histories of a great war are necessarily imperfect, not only because the facts themselves are unknown in detail, but because......

Thomasin A.* .at Last We Have An Authoress With Sufficient

ability and ready will to do justice to stepmothers, and we ask her in tones of very natural reproachfulness why she did not do it ? Stepmothers are a much slandered class, and......