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in 1850 and 1851, in search of the missing Crews. In 

 Biography, tlie ten volumes of Memoir, Journal, and 

 Correspondence of Thomas Moore, edited by Lord John 

 Russell, will be expected with more than usual interest, 

 — and in this department we may mention also the 

 forthcoming Memoirs of the Baroness d Oherkirch, 

 written by herself and edited by her grandson, the 

 Count de Monthison. There is also good news for 

 the novel reader. The author of Zanoni, it is true, 

 has retired into Parliameut, so that for a while the 

 muse of romance may be voiceless at Knehworth ; but 

 others of the craft are in the field. The long-talked-of 

 novel by the author of Vaniti/ Fair, is, we believe, in 

 course of being printed. The author of the Falcon 

 Family has a new story ready for the season, with the 

 title of Reuben Medlicot. Mr. Douglas Jerrold and the 

 authoress of Mary Barton are severally contemplating 

 new adventures among the social wastes and prairies of 

 English daily life. Intelligence from Parnassus is 

 somewhat scanty, but good of its kind. We hear that 

 Mr. Sydney Yendys, the author of The Roman, has a 

 new poem in the press ; and Mr. Tennyson has com- 

 posed some battalions of stanzas, but whether they will 

 J)e put under review this season is not yet certain." 



We beg lor two reasons to call attention to the fol- 

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