2 JANUARY 1869, page 23

Books.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOK.* Tuts book is capital lazy reading,—having enough points to attract attention and to start little jets of speculative interest, without......

Illustrated Abyssinia.* Timis Seems To Us By Far The Most

interesting and valuable of the Christmas books published thisoseason, one which must be purchased by every man who took an interest in the strangely romantic expedition which......