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The _Westminster Review_ has been excluded from the Select Subscription
Library of Edinburgh, on the special ground of its heresy!

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Among the new works in the press the following are announced by Mr.
Bentley: "History of the American Revolution," by GEORGE BANCROFT; the
"Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham," by the Earl of ALBEMARLE; "Letters
of Gray the Poet," edited from original MSS., with Notes by the Rev. J.
MITFORD; "Memoirs of the Court of George III.," by J. HENEAGE JESSE;
"Memoirs of Sarah Margaret Fuller, the Marchioness of Ossola," edited by
R. W. Emerson and W. H. CHANNING; "History of the Governors-General of
India," by Mr. KAYE, author of "The History of the Affghan War," and
various other works of general interest.

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JULES BENEDICT, the companion of the Swedish Nightingale in America, has
entered into an arrangement with a London publisher to issue his complete
account of Jenny Lind's tour in America.

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It is said that Mr. MACAULAY has delayed the publication of the third and
fourth volumes of his _History of England_ in consequence of his having
obtained some new information relating to King William the Third. King
William, it is asserted, figures as the chief personage in the
narrative--and the greatest stress is laid on his conduct subsequently to
the Revolution.

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ROBERT BROWNING, in his Italian sojourn, has been interesting himself
biographically in PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY; and the result of this inquiry we
are to have shortly in some unpublished letters of SHELLEY'S, with a
preface by BROWNING himself.

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MR. W. CRAMP is preparing a critical analysis of the _Private Letters_ of
Junius to Woodfall, to be added to his new edition of Junius. The private
correspondence with Woodfall is a field of inquiry that hitherto has not
been sufficiently explored. Mr. Cramp is pursuing his investigation on the
plan of the essays on the letters of "Atticus Lucius," and those in
defense of the Duke of Portland. This inquiry promises to reveal many
additional facts in proof of Mr. Cramp's hypothesis that Lord Chesterfield
was Junius.

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Major CUNNINGHAM has completed hi