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TRIBUTAIIIKS, or Kainbles among the Rivers, 
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Thames Scejiery and Antiquities, extra doth, (pub. 
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MACNISH'S (DR.) TALES, ESSAYS, AND 
SKETCHES; with the Author's Life, by his 
friend. D. M. Moir, Second Edition, 2 vols. 
flap. 8vo. portrait, extra cloth, (pub. at 12s^ 
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Dr. Macnisli is the well-known author of the Anatomy 
of Drunkenness, Anatomy of Sleep, &c. and one of the 
most popular contributors to Blackwood's Magazine 
under the signature of " The Modern Pythagorean." 
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CONTENTS. 
The Metempsychosis. Punch and Judy, 
'J'lie M:in Willi the Nose. 
The Confessions of an 
Unexecuted Feiniui- 
cide. 
The Barber of Giitliugen. 
Culonel O'Sliriughnessy. 
Colonel O'Shaughiicssy in 
India. 
Who can it be ? 
The Man with ihe Mouth. 
The Wig. 
An Execution at Paris. 
The Man-Mountain. 
Singular Passage in my 
own Life. 
The Red Man. 
The Murdered Begbie, a 
Houiance. 
Terence O'Flaherty. 
The Covenanters. 
The Loves of the 
Learned. 
A Vision of Robert the 
Bruce. 
Death and the Fisher- 
man. 
A Night near Monte 
Video. 
Notes of a Journey from 
Paris to Ostend. 
M'rORMAC'S (DR.) PHILOSOPHY OF 
HUiMAN NATURE, in its Physical, Intel- 
lectual, and Moral Relations, 8vo. extra cloth 
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even ) himself," — Atlas. 
MALCOLM'S MEMOIROF CENTRAL INDIA, 
including Malwa and adjoining Provinces; 
with tlie History and copious Illustrations of 
the past and present condition of that Country, 
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cloth, (pub. at £1. 8s) reduced to 18s 1832 
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render it necessary Hiat we should waste time in 
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public, and cannot be too generally read, or too care- 
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MARCHMONT PAPERS, illustrative of Events 
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Sir George Rose, from the Family MSS. in his 
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MARLBOROUGH (DUCHESS OF) MEMOIRS 
OF, AND OF THE COURT OF QUEEN 
ANNE, compiled from Original and Unpub- 
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throughout with considerable power, great impartiality, 
and very refined taste."— jl<Jw. 
"The life of the masculine Ducliess is more full of 
general interest than even that of lior celebrated hus- 
band ; for her vigorous intellect, her determined spirit, 
and the position in which she was placed with respect 
to both Courts and Cabinets, made her the principal 
personage of Kurope, the Duuo himself scarcely excei)ted. 
Notwithstanding this, the biography of this most 
extraordinary woman has been a desideratum, and it ia 
only now that it is supplied by tne work before in. 
We have now, however, the biograpliics both of the hero 
of the field, and the heroine of the cabinet, and in jioint 
of entertainment the latter is the more preferable of the 
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MARLBOROUGH'S (DUCHESS OF) PRIVATE 
CORRESPONDENCE, illustrative of the 
Court and Times of Queen Anne; now 
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her Sketches and Opinions of her Contem- 
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lay bare to us the heart and mind of that extraordinary 
woman, who, at a crisis among the most celebrated in 
our annals, was virtually the prime minister of England. 
It is well known that Godolphin and Marlborough were 
brought over to Whig principles and retained in tliem 
by the influence of tlie Uuchess — that to her power over 
the mind of the Queen was owing the continuance of 
the administration which raised England to the pin- 
nacle of glory — and that the decline of that intluenca 
enabled Harley and St. .Joiin to stain our aunals with 
the treaty of Utrecht. This Correspondence contains a 
pretty full commentary on the principal events in the 
reign of Anne, but to us the most interesting part is 
'The Characters of her Contemporaries' written by the 
Duchess, and her 'Opinions,' which are said to be ex- 
tracts from her letters to Lord Stair, and reprinted 
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1788 by Lord Hailcs." — Athcn(Bum. 
MARRYAT'S (CAPT.) DIARIES IN AME- 
RICA, WITH REJMARKS ON ITS INSTI- 
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views it exhibits much sound sense and shrewdness." 
Spectator. 
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novelist. His happy delineations and contrasts of cha- 
racter, and easy play of native fun would redeem a 
thousand faults. His strong sense and utter superioiity 
to atTectation of all sorts command respect; and in hia 
quiet effectiveness of circumstantial narrative, he ap- 
proaches old Defoe. There is less of caricature about 
his pictures than in those of any contempor.iry humorist 
— and he shows far larger and maturer knowledge of the 
real workings of human nature. These Diaries m 
America will, no doubt, attr.ict some attention, which 
they will amply repay." — Quarterly Jtevierv. 
OLLA PODRIDA, consisting of his Diary on 
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Novels, Tales, Sketches, &c. 3 vols, post 8vo 
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dull hours of the general rcuAcr."— Literary Gazette. 
"Soldiers and sailors are proverbially skilled in im- 
promptu cookery ; and it will not ther?fore surprise any 
one who taste Capt. Marryat's " OUa," to find it savory, 
and containing some choice morsels."*— ^f/jen«u?H, 
