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cultivated reader. The other book. '-Horace Greeley the Editor," 

 by Francis Nicoll Zabriskie, is a better work. The author, in our 

 opinion, has too high an estimation of his hero, yet he exposes 

 Greeley's faults, and perhaps says a little too much about his ec- 

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 work, the marks of too great haste in writing, it will serve a pur- 

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 that the authors of the remaining books of the series will all use 

 a sober and simple style, with careful avoidance of rhetoric. 



— " English Sanitary Institutions, Reviewed in their Course of 

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— The contributors to the October Magazine of American His 

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 author, and, occupying twenty-eght of the pages of this periodical, 

 is from first to last a procession of brilliant passages, clear, forci- 

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— Mr. T. Wemyss Reid, the biographer of the Right Hon. W. 

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