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SAML. HUGGINS  NOTICES.  Atlas to Alison's History of Europe. By Alexander ,Keith Johnson, F.R.G.S. Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and Sons. Part 1., decoy Grno..  The first part of this very neat publication contains six beautifully-finished maps, viz. :—Paris at the Outbreak of the Revolution, 1789 ; Map of the Netherlands, to illustrate the Campaigns of 1792 to 1795; Battle of Jemappes ; Battle of Neerwinden ; and Siege of Toulon. As a companion to the historian, it will be invaluable and aimost indispensable.  Brief Memoir of Joseph John Gurney, Esq. By John .Alexander, Minister of Prince's-street Chapel, Norwich. Norwich : Josiah Fletcher, Upper Haymarket ; Lon don : Charles Gilpin. Bvo., pp. 72. This is the tenth thousand of a brief memoir of a gentleman, whose philanthropic and Christian labours for the benefit of his fellow-countrymen are well known, in conjunction with those of his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, and with Clarkson, Fowell Buxton, and others, for the abolition of negro slavery. It is a most interesting and instructive record of a life well spent.  History of the French Revolution. By J. Michelet. Translated by C. Cocks, B.L. London : H. G. Bohn,  York-street, Covent  work, in an English dress, has just been published by Mr. Bohn, and will doubtless take its place as a standard work in our literature. Its style is marked with all the quaintness and force of Mr. Michelet's other works, with occasional obscurity and Germanism. Much research has been evidently employed ; and many incidents of the eventful times and scenes misrepresented by preceding have been attempted to be truthfully brought before the public.  historians  Now Brunswick ham Gesner, 1  rotes for Emigrants. By Abra;eon. London : Simmonds and  Ward, 6, Barge-yard, ilucklersbury. Bvo., pp. 388. The author of this lucidly-written and instructive work was employed for five years by the Government of New Brunswick to make a geological survey of the province. The opportunities of personal observation thus afforded him, enabled him to make himself thoroughly acquainted with the climate and the general resources of the country, the manners and habits of its population. and the claims which it possesses upon the notice of the British emigrant. He has introduced also an early history of the province, an account of the Indian tribes, and a large mass of topographical and statistical information, embracing its timber trade, commerce, manufactures, shipping, agriculture,  fisheries, &c., and some valuable remarks upon its contemplated railways. The work is one of great value to the emigrant, the merchant, and the statesman as well,  who will find in it the observations of a practical man who has had Opp(  iities of arth  Upon that knowledge sound concl with woodcuts, and very neatly gi  Dublin U)  lg at a correct and and leisure to form  It is illustrated  month, is an  some very inter  the Blind Girl's Love  re intellig  ` Irish  Aoyne '  and an  Ihn Doherty  SKETCI  S OF A  RIP TO THE CONTINENT  ,GYPI  1 Standard.)  visit of t  w seldom, if ev .ch ! Only a f  were savagely murdered Inch a deed of ingrative made had it occurred  like the pestilence  black gl  annoyed by rising at so unusual an early hour. I soon found my cunning Bostonian had gone quietly down the street while the horses were being put to, and got himself a cup of coffee and some cigars to fortify himself against the miasma of the marshes. Not dreaming any house would be open at so early a time of day, I proceeded, contrary to all rule, without any refreshment, the 25 miles of marshy route. . _  These marshes are from six to twelve miles broad. If we take the average at nine miles, there are 225 square miles of this half-drained and halt-cultivated plat of land. The Romans made over it the Via Appia, and attempted to drain it. Many succeeding Roman Catholic pontiffs have also tried, and Pius VI. and