f giving a careful statement of the doctrines of the
various schools of Economists and Socialists. It makes a good-sized
octavo volume.

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LOUIS FASQEULLE, professor of modern languages in the University of
Michigan, has published (Mark H. Newman) a _New Method of Learning the
French Language_, embracing the analytic and synthetic modes of
instruction, on the plan of Woodbury's method with the German.

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M. LOUIS REYBAUD has published at Paris a new work under the title of
_Athanase Robichon Candidat Perpetuel a la Presidence de la Republique_.
M. Reybaud is one of the keenest of political satirists.

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The French papers state that Lord Brougham, in his retreat at Cannes, is
preparing a work to be entitled _France and England before Europe in
1851_.

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DON JUAN HARTZENBUSCH has commenced, in Madrid, a reprint of the works
of her most distinguished authors of Spain. From the earliest ages to
the present time. It is entitled _Biblioteca de Autores Espanoles_, and
it is a more difficult undertaking than things of the kind in western
and northern Europe. Since many works of the principal authors never
having been printed at all, the compiler has to hunt after them in
libraries, in convents, and in out of the way places--whilst others,
having been negligently printed, have to be revised line by line.
Hartzenbusch has brought to light _fourteen_ comedies of Calderon de la
Barca, which previous editors were unable to discover. The total number
of Calderon's pieces the world now possesses is therefore 122; and there
is reason to believe that they are all he wrote, with the exception of
two or three, which there is no hope of recovering.

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The first and second volumes of the _Grenville Papers_--being the
correspondence of Richard, Earl Temple, and George Grenville, their
friends and contemporaries, including Mr. Grenville's Political
Diary--were published in London on the 18th of December. We have before
alluded to this work, as one likely to illustrate some points in
American history, and possibly to furnish new means for determining the
vexed question of the authorship of Junius. Among the contents will be
found letters from George the Third, the Dukes of Cumberland, Newcastle,
Devonshire, Grafton, and Bedford; Marque