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The Appletons have in press _Io!_ a novel, by a member of the Canadian
Parliament, which gives large promise in the proof sheets; _The
Philosophy of Mechanics_, by Mr. Allen, of Providence; _Campaigns in
Mexico and by the Rio Grande_, by Brevet Major ISAAC J. STEVENS, in
which Major Ripley, author of the History of the Mexican War, published
by Harpers, is likely to receive more hot shot than he encountered on
the field; _Sunbeams and Shadows_, a novel, by Miss HULSE, of Baltimore,
and several other new works.

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The _History of the Protestants of France, from the Commencement of the
Reformation to the Present Period_, by G. S. FELICE, Professor of
Theology at Montauban, has been published in a handsome octavo, by
Edward Walker, Fulton street. In the April number of _The
International_, we described this work, from a copy of the French
original that fell in our way, not knowing that it was in course of
translation. We renew our commendations.

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The _Traveller's and Tourist's Guide through the United States, Canada,
&c._, by W. WILLIAMS, (published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co., of
Philadelphia), is the most convenient and comprehensive hand-book of the
kind we have seen. It appears in time for the tourists of the summer,
who will find in it all the information they need, as to routes,
distances, &c.

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The author of "Standish the Puritan," who indulges a natural taste for
letters, after having won fortune and eminence at the bar, is now
finishing the last sheets of a new novel for the Harpers, on his estate
in Georgia.

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CZERNY'S _Method of the Piano Forte_, which we believe to be in all
respects as good a book of instruction for that instrument, as was ever
made, has been reprinted in a good edition by Oliver Ditson, of Boston.

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A new edition of CARDINAL WISEMAN'S _Lectures on the Principal Doctrines
of the Catholic Church_, has been published by John Murphy & Co., of
Baltimore. This is a very able work, though less interesting to the mass
of readers than its eminent author's work on the connexion between
Science and Revealed Religion.

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Among the new poems of the month are several fine ones by a new
candidate for favor