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New Books.

ANNuALS, Forget.Me-Not Ackermann. Literary Souvenir • . .. Longman and Co. Friendship's Offering Smith and Elder. Amulet Westley and Davis. Winter's Wreath Whittaker and Co.......

Fine Arts.

ENGRAVINGS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY. WE have not for a long time seen a publication of such sterling excel- lence, both in the subjects chosen and the execution of the plates, as......

It Was The Fashion To Represent The Producers Of Wealth

as pur- suing a low and illiberal occupation. In the vocabulary of our forefathers, value and utility were opposite terms. The classes which furnished the subsistence, comforts,......