e heart. Prince SOLTIKOFF has also brought out
his travels in India and Prussia in a splendid style. One of the most
elegant and universally admired works of the season at Paris, is
_Aix-les-Bains_, by Amedee Achard, illustrated by Eugene Ginain.
Aix-les-Bains is a favorite watering place in Savoy, and this book is an
account of a summer passed there.

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In the number for the first of December, of the Paris _Revue des Deux
Mondes_, a writer introduces and dissects poems, unedited until now in
the _Romance_ tongue, of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Two new
publications from their collection of manuscripts, by the Toulouse
Academy of Floral Games, perfectly exhibit the state of the Romaunt
tongue and poetry from 1324 to 1496.

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In the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ is an amusing paper by HENRI BLAZE, on
_Verona and Marshal Radetzky_, where, among other matters, he touches
upon _Romeo and Juliet_. The house where Juliet was born, lived, and
loved, is now turned into a vast warehouse for merchandize by the
pitiless prosaism of Time.

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In Paris we see advertised _Lettres d'Amour_. The Author, M. Julien
Lemer, has the idea of collecting in one volume the most celebrated love
matters--the _chefs-d'oeuvre_ of tender correspondence--a style of
composition in which France has always been eminent.

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EDMOND TEXIER has written at Paris _L'Histoire des Jeraux, ou Biographie
des Journalistes,_ described as very piquant. Such a book would do in
this country.

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IDA VON DUERINGSFELD has published a new novel, _Antonio Foscarini_,
said to be entertaining, and to contain a good picture of Venetian life
in the fifteenth century.

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LAMARTINE has commenced in the _Siecle_ newspaper a new novel entitled
_Le Tailleur de Saint Pierre et Saint Point_.

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GARNIER DE CASSAGNAC has taken ground against Lamartine and his history,
in a work entitled _Histoire du Directoire_.

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A NEW POET, John Charles Bristow, of whom no one ever heard before, has
come out in London with five thick volumes of his "Works."

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A NEW HISTORY OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS has just been issued at