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The Breaking Of The Storm.'

THERE is in German fiction one peculiarity which, as far as we are aware, is wholly confined to the works of that school,—we mean a plain directness of statement and simplicity......

Mr. Joseph Cook's Lectures On Tran- Scendentalism.* •...

Lestures : Transcendentalism, with Preludes on Current Events. By Joseph Cook. Glasgow : Bryce and Son. 1878. THESE lectures form a part of the series delivered in Boston under......