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Show BOOKS RE4'EIVFI. "tho KcwMnpdalcu. bv Wilku- Collin-, mah,ir of Aii!i:id:il.-..M;m and WileA'c, Ac; X'.'v York, Lbirpi-r !!:.-. : piip.-r, 1-0 pp, f.O eeiil-; J.tin-..- JJ-.vwr, .ii Lake. The Qu-en'.- lii'vcuy. and vllv? ,-lorie.-, bv Wiikio CVNin-. autli-.-r ..f Tin- D.-ad tveivt, Tho Viia ti in lt'lU, etc., -te: riiilHdoIplii-. T. H. IVtor A br.i;.; paper, y: 7.". ivnt-: Juiti..-; Uvvyer, Sail Lnkc. An interesting novel lor hu.-bands with limited incomes. It- views of life and society arc a-' happy a- they are charming. I.Uiio l.rrit, by Cliat-U'- U;..i,.-:i.-; '.-w York, H.irpjr V,-m.; p-n.-r, pt si; l-uu-ja Uvvyer, Silt Lake. This is one of the finest cheap illustrated illus-trated editions of the great novelet's writings. Little Dorrit contains fiily-vight fiily-vight excellent wood cuts,by Mahoney. The "Barnaeies," and the T'iicum-locutiemOtliee" T'iicum-locutiemOtliee" and the old "Mar--liaise1;! I'rison" with its "crowning gliOsLs of many miserable years," jiic-t jiic-t tired in this work, are among the most familiar liistorical creations of Charles Dickens, and the touching sketches of the lives of the characters with whom he peopled this debtor's prison arc not to be eweccded, in the depth of theh pathos, in his other works. Nbtury (" L-ii.taad .0:.Aa. ll.e V'.tthohe: bv Win. II. Pr.-.-e e-w i'd r. vi-. ! .-iiU V, . :;: lu;;i,L-l- PI-. 1: J on. - Vhi v,-r: .-S.ii'.' 1,'m!.'''' This is liie el-ing volume of Liiat km st brilliant reign in the history of the Spanish Empire . which was only darkeuol by the c!.;bhshn:ciit of tiic Iriq;iis:t':on, that Might lu which Spain, niore than to any other single cube owes her downfall from the glorious height to which she had risen :u the Fifteenth Century; and which fruitful parent e-f liyi ocrisy and stl-peistiiiui). stl-peistiiiui). wihch soLircil ths sweet etiarities of life, and -cltling like a foul mist on the goodly promise of the land, closed up the fair buds of science and civilization ere; they were fully opened." The decline of Spain began wkh the death of Queen Isabella, Isa-bella, in the year 1'jO-I, which was quickly followed by the- resignation of King Ferdinand, who wv. powerless to restrain the disorder fyr which that death va the sig::a!; and li.is t::hl '.o!u:;:e dcuKs much of ils .i..uc to t!:e closing .euc;, of the reign ..:id a Icngtiiy review of the ulmini-t ration of these monarei's. We e-ui do -..aice.'y b-.ttcr thun to 't-f-'U the thial parag.v.ph of our .:tl-tiio; .:tl-tiio; illicit. r.r. rnUing that the bo.i t- 1 ie;g;i of Charle- Fifth pur-h,'-td d-.ii ly the .-rkn.Ui L,r itd ;gn iiiqiie-ls by tl,.- iie!:;ir of ":d-utiy at b ....d 1 1,.- I. , ..f uty, -.iy.- . 'I he p itrii.l wij; ... . !.o. t. . , ,. ., riii'i in tliis i-ii .-. " -wdl turn to an. -alii r p. - v,...n fhe ii.tti'.r, i iji'T-hn f i jin tl,.- -l.-tii m- I 1. 1 r, I,. it ar:-i. nt em 'j. -"'i to pr. pov t.. Pi,, bk-- a gia;.t in ' , - and i.x n- f.oon li;f j.-, ui,M;i,a,i I .''viJ;i u- tnc rnuTt gl.n-iou-, rp-h in V.; mi- al; ul hi-, cvunlrv, |