d Jeffrey_, by his friend Lord COCKBURN. This biography will possess
peculiar interest, from Lord Jeffrey's literary position as one of the
originators, and for so many years editor of the _Edinburgh Review_. His
connection with Byron, originating in fierce hostility, and terminating in
warm friendship, as well as his connection with many other distinguished
men, and the grace of his epistolary style, will also impart an
interesting character to its contents.

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Mr. JERDAN is proceeding rapidly with his _Autobiography and
Reminiscences_, the commencement of which will relate to the youth of some
of the highest dignitaries of the law now living, and the sequel will
illustrate, from forty years of intimacy, the character and acts of George
Canning, and nearly all the leading statesmen, politicians, _literati_,
and artists, who have flourished within that period.

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It is reported that Lord BROUGHAM is beguiling his sick leisure at Cannes,
with the composition of a work to be entitled, _France and England before
Europe in 1851_, a social and political parallel of the two foremost
nations of the world.

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An English _Memoir of the Last Emperor of China_ is announced from the pen
of Dr. GUTZLAFF, the lately-deceased and well-known missionary to that
strange empire, from which intelligent tidings are always welcome.

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A second edition is printing of CARLYLE'S _Life of Sterling_. His first
book the fine _Life of Schiller_, took some five-and-twenty years to
attain the second-editionship, which is bestowed upon his latest book
after as many days.

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A second edition is under way of the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY'S glowing
novel, _Yeast_, which is regarded by many as the best of all his books,
dealing as it does with the rural scenes and manners which are familiar to
him at first-hand.

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The last announcement of a new work in the department of history or
biography is that of a forthcoming Life of Admiral BLAKE, "based almost
entirely on original documents," by Mr. HEPWORTH DIXON, the biographer of
JOHN HOWARD and WILLIAM PENN, and the delineator of London prisons. Mr.
Dixon has a taste for the s