reprint of Bohn's Library, and
which in Paris has passed through numberless editions--will soon have
completed his History of Mary Stuart, which is destined, probably, to
supersede every other in the French language. Mignet is perpetual
Secretary of the Academy of Moral Sciences, and was for many years head
of the department of Archives in the Foreign Office. As a man of letters
and a sedulous inquirer, no French author enjoys higher reputation.

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Lamartine has just published in Paris _The History of the Restoration,
from 1814 to_ 1830, in eight volumes. The work has been composed
hastily, and probably by several hands, for money. The poet has also
published _The Stone Cutter of Saint-Pont_, to which we have before
referred--a new book of sentimental memoirs: they pall after two
administrations.

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The _Histoire des Races Maudites et les Classes Reprouves_, by
Francisque Michel and Edouard Fournier, publishing at Paris, with
illustrations, has advanced to the twentieth number. The whole is to
contain a hundred numbers, forming three volumes.

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M. Michelet, the well-known professor of history in the College de
France, has incurred a vote of censure from his associates on account of
his lectures to the students, which, we infer from notices of them, are
quite too republican and socialistic to be approved by the directors of
affairs.

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A new work, by M. Theophile Lavallee, entitled _L'Histoire de Paris et
ses Monumens_ from ancient times to 1850, has just been published at
Paris, with illustrations by M. Champin. It is warmly commended by the
_Debats_.

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MULLIE, of the University of France, has published in two large octavos,
a Biographical Dictionary of the Military Celebrities of France, from
1789 to 1850.

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A second edition of the new _Life of the great Chancellor D'Auguesseau_,
by M. BOUILLE, has been published in Paris. The book continues to be
praised.

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A Romance and Tales, said to have been written by NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,
when he was a youth, are announced for publication in the Paris
_Siecle_. Though the _Siecle_ is a very respectable journal, and it
engages that these compositions are perfectly authentic, and shal