The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-03-17
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Hunters Life inSouth Africa" good re-
view of a most stirring work; Socrates, The
mysteries Of Ceylon, Cheap Sugar and Slave
Trade, The British Museum, Germany and
the King OF Prussia, Life and Letters OF
Southey, The Ministers and the Pope, The
Deienceless state Of Great Britain" The
article on Prussian affairs, opens up some
new views, generally hid from American
vision and is key to some Of the unlocked
for developments in German politics. Not
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Edinburgh Rcuico for January. Contents:
English Socialism ald Communistic Associ-
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struggle of Italy-Devon and Cornwall
Sewell's Odes and Epods of Horace-Lord
Campbells Chief Justices--Lord Hollands
Foreign Remiscences Kings and Popes
The Menace Of War in Germany--Lord
Clarendon's Administration. In the review
of Lord Hollands Foreign "reminiscences,
we find opinions directly opposite to those
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The Commerce Of Fiance in l849-The trad
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y Currency Of New England and the SulfoI
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the State OF New York--Equitable Com
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