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      480 T H E ^ - A D E H. [No. 321, Sat., M...

      480 T H E ^ - A D E H . [ No . 321 , Sat ., May 17 , 1856 .

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      Just published , crown 8 vo , price 5 s ., RECOLLECTIONS of a VISIT to the UNITED STATES , and BRITISH PROVINCES of NORTH AMERICA . By ROBERT PLATFAIR , Esq . Edinburgh : Thomas Constable and Co . London : Hamilton , Adams , and Co . Dublin : W . Robertson .

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      Just published , post 8 vo , cloth , price 7 s . 6 d . T » HE LIFE of HENRY FIELDING : with JL Notices of his Writings , his Times , and his Contemporaries . By FREDERICK LAWRENCE , of the Middle Teinple , Barrister-at-Law . "A useful addition to entertaining knowledge . " —Spectator . . ¦ ¦ " Mr . Lawrence has prodticed aTSharming book , replete with anecdote , brimful of literary gossip illustrative of the age , and sparklinz with vivacious illustration aud just criticism . "— Weekly Dispatch . " A biography more interesting in itself , or more captivating fromJhe graceful ease of its style , has seldom issued from the press . " —Standard . Akthur Hall , Vikttje , and Co ., 25 , Paternoster-row .

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      Next Week , with Original Map and Woodcuts , 8 vo . CARAVAN JOURNEYS & WANDERINGS IN PERSIA , AFGHANISTAN , TURKISTAN , AND BELOOCHISTAN ; WITH HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE COUNTRIES LYING BETWEEN RUSSIA AND INDIA . BY J . P . FERRIER , Formerly of the Chasseurs d'Afrique , and late Adjutant-General of the Persian Army . JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET . :

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      This day is published , post 8 vo , cloth , prico 6 s ., W HAT IS TRUTH ? or , Revelation its own Nemesis . Second Edition , revised and enlarged . ] London ; John Chapman , 8 , King William-street , Strand .

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      ESSAY S BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL : chiefly on English Poets . By DAVID MASSON , A . M ., Professor of English Literature in University College , London . Cainbrldgo : Macmillan and Co . ; London : Bell and Daldy .

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      This day , 8 vo , jirico 12 a . cloth , PRINCIPLES and MAXIMS of JURISPRUDENCE . By JOHN GEORGE PHI LLIMOltR , Q . C ., Ml ' ., lieudor on Constitutional Law and Legal History to tho Four Inns of Court . London : John W . Parker and Son , West Strand .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1856, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17051856/page/24/