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NUMBER VIII.
REVIEWS.-Hazlitt's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte.
New American Romance Poetry. The Froissart Union Journal.
Ballads and other l'oems, by P. Pendleton Cooke.
The Spaniards and their Country. Second paper.
The Ian; Travelling; Physician; the Ballet
and Cigurs of Spain.

Margaret Capel, a new Novel of the school of Miss
Austin.

Passages from the History of Liberty.-Wilson's

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