thern Europe. He has also licked that jaw-cracking tongue so far into
shape, that it serves for regular hexameters.

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MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, republished by Lea &
Blanchard of Philadelphia, in ten or twelve volumes, is a work of very
great interest and value, for its illustrations of the higher and
progressive British civilization. Her Lives of the Queens of Scotland,
soon to be issued from the press of the Harpers, resembles generally her
former work, by the success of which it was probably suggested, as much
as by the desirableness of the biographies of the Northern Queens, as
"adjuncts" to the lives of those of England. A good deal of matter was
collected in reference to the later Queens of Scotland during the
biographer's researches for the Queens of England; and this, augmented
by further inquiries among public and private archives, especially among
the muniment-chests of noble Scottish families, forms the materials of
the present undertaking. The "lives" do not begin till the Tudor times,
when the nearer relationship with England imparts a greater interest to
the subject, not only from the closer communication between the courts,
but from the prospects of the Scottish succession to the English crown.

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JOHN S. DWIGHT, of Boston, has recently delivered an admirable lecture
before the Mercantile Library Association of this city, on "Operatic
Music," illustrated by a critical examination of Rossini's _Don
Giovanni_. Mr. Dwight's rare musical learning and accomplishments, his
exquisite taste in art, and his remarkable felicity of expression, were
displayed to singular advantage in this masterly lecture, and won the
cordial applauses of the most appreciative critics in his large and
highly intelligent audience.

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A History of the Greek Revolution is soon to be given to the public by
Baron PROKESH OSTEN, who for many years was Austrian ambassador at
Athens, and who now fills the same office at Berlin. Of course his book
will be published at Vienna.

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A NEW EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GOeETHE, in thirty volumes (it
would look much better and be far more convenient in fifteen), is
advertised in Berlin. Two volumes are ready, and the whole are to be
issued before the close of 1851.

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