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Popular Literature which are appearing abroad in serials, or in separate
chapters. With this view, we print in the first number the initial
portions of the brilliant nautical romance now in course of publication
in _Blackwood's Magazine_, under the title of "The Green Hand," by the
author of the most celebrated fiction of its class in English
literature, "Tom Cringle's Log;" and other works will be selected and
carried on simultaneously, as they shall come to us with the stamp of
sufficient merit.

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volumes--are rarely reproduced at all in this country. Of these the
INTERNATIONAL will contain the choicest selections.

III. Of the Quarterly Reviews the most admirable papers will be
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appear may be unattractive.

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