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ATLANTIC MoSTHIY.-Thc June number Of
| the .Atlautic Monthly is received from the pub
fishers. Ticknor 4 Fields. It's contents are rs
folows:-
The Guardian Angel; The City of ST. Louis
The Red School House; \ Venetian Expert
cncc; Negro Spirituals; Poor Richard; q. l..
the Dramati>t; The Founders Of Montreal
Russian America, Among the Comedians; Re
view, and Literary Notices.
| For sale al the bookstores.
Hours At HONE for June l. received from
| A. Williams & Co., Boston, through Robert
! Cole. This l. one Of our best monthlies.-
among the valuable and Interesting articles
! this month are the following; Moral Uses
of Dark Things, by Horace Bushnell, No. );
Harcclla of Rome, fine historical romance.
Chapter, NJ and XII; Visits to the Home, OF
| Authors Out of Rome under a Cloak; The
/ Poets and Puctr, of sweden; Humor and it,
| sphere. by DIR. Glllcti; Woman, " ork in the
| Civil War. by the editor, Du Chaill,'s African
Explorations, &c. Price - u year single cop
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! THE LkpY's FRiESp.-Thc June number is
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| Work &c. The literary matter is choice
How a Woman Had Her Way" continues to
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-Nickolas Nickleby. in the series of TIE
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err
-"Thc Diamond Dickens e" is an edition Of
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HARPER's MAGAZINE. The illustrated ar,i.
clc> IN the June number of this excellent mag.
acme are -"Oyer the Plains to Colorado :" sev.
ventures of" The Dodge Club; =" my second
Childhood. - "rhe Nirginians in Texas. y \
very attractive record OF life and adventure in
a new country, is concluded there is graphic
sketch OF Hon. Thomas Corwin, and MANY
good stories, and the usual ''Monthly Record, y
Editors Easy Chair and spicy Editors
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York,
at "a year.