a good reputation.

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The _Republique_, a new book just published By Paris, by M. LEFRANC, a
member of the Assembly, treats of the events which have filled up the
time since the revolution of 1848. M. Lefranc is an ardent republican,
and his exhibition of this momentous period is not favorable to the
party which hitherto, at least, has managed to gain the victory, if not
to assure itself the possession of its traits. His style is singularly
animated and impassioned, and it is not without justice that a prominent
Parisian critic (Eugene Pelletan) calls him the most direct inheritor of
that light-armed yet potent style of polemical writing, of which the
famous Camille Desmoulins was so great a master.

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The popularity of SCOTT, in France, is shown by the appearance of the
_twentieth_ edition of Defauconpret's translation of his novels; and the
announcement of an entirely new translation of them by another hand. If
Defauconpret had been the only translator, _twenty_ editions would have
been an immense success; but there are besides, at the very least,
_twenty_ different translations of the complete works (many of which
have had two, three, or four editions), and innumerable translations of
particular novels, especially of _Quentin Durward_.

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M. BLANQUART EVRARD, has commenced at Paris what he calls _D'Album
Photographique de l'Artiste et de l'Amateur_. It is a pictorial work,
containing reproductions by photography on paper of well-known works of
art by ancient and modern masters. We have not seen it, but hear it
spoken of as successful.

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M. GUIZOT has now published under the title of _Meditations et Etudes
Morales_, a collection of essays that had previously appeared on the
immortality of the soul, and kindred topics. To them he has added a new
preface, in which he discusses the question of liberty and authority in
religion.

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On the night of the 13th of November, FRANCOIS ARAGO, the great
astronomer, was brought from his sick bed to the French Assembly, and
walked up the chamber, supported by the arms of two of his colleagues,
to give his vote in favor of Universal Suffrage.

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M. OTT has just published at Paris a _Traite d'Economie Sociale_, which
has the merit o