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Constitution of England--Joan of Arc. By William Howitt. The
Barber of Duncow. By the Et trick Shepherd. Hymn of Anteros--
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Stray Notes on the Anti-Slavery Reporter—Mr. Sadler on the Edin-
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What is the Value of a virtuous Woman's Tear 7—Moore's Life of
Byron. By Oliver Yorke— A Literary Sketch of the Hon. Mrs.
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form—The Althorp Budget--On our National Prospects and Poliiical
History. By W. Holmes, Esq. M. P. for Hasiemere--Symposiac the
Second.

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daily increasing patronage with which his publication is honoured.
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Quarterly Review ; S. Rogers, Esq. author of " Pleasures of Me-
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