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Rural Economy of France since 1789. 
the French language to procure the book itself and read it 
through. Let no one be deterred from doing so bj its forbid- 
ding title, as we have rarely seen dry statistical facts and figures 
comprised in so alluring a form, and interspersed by so many 
entertaining details and pictures of scener}', manners, customs, 
&c. In one word, M. de Lavergne has written a book which 
has its place everywhere : in the study of the learned, in the 
boudoir or drawing-room of the wealthy, and especially in the 
travelling-bag of the tourist. 
Norioootl. 
