Part 30

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NOTES AND EMENDATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE.

Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays, from the Early Manuscript Corrections in a copy of the folio of 1632, in the possession of JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., F.S.A. Third edition, with a facsimile of the Manuscript Corrections. 1 vol. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

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"This volume is an almost indispensable companion to any of the editions of Shakespeare, so numerous and often important are many of the corrections."--Register, Philadelphia.

THE HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.

By JOSEPH FRANCOIS MICHAUD. Translated by W. Robson, 3 vols. 12mo., maps, $3.75.

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MARMADUKE WYVIL.

An Historical Romance of 1651, by HENRY W. HERBERT, author of the "Cavaliers of England," &c., &c. Fourteenth Edition. Revised and Corrected.

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=Life under an Italian Despotism!=

LORENZO BENONI,

PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN.

One Vol., 12mo, Cloth--Price $1.00.

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=OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.=

"The author of 'Lorenzo Benoni' is GIOVANNI RUFFINI, a native of Genoa, who effected his escape from his native country after the attempt at revolution in 1833. His book is, in substance, an authentic account of real persons and incidents, though the writer has chosen to adopt fictitious and fantastic designations for himself and his associates. Since 1833, Ruffini has resided chiefly (if not wholly) in England and France, where his qualities, we understand, have secured him respect and regard. In 1848, he was selected by Charles Albert to fill the responsible situation of embassador to Paris, in which city he had long been domesticated as a refugee. He ere long, however, relinquished that office, and again withdrew into private life. He appears to have employed the time of his exile in this country to such advantage as to have acquired a most uncommon mastery over the English language. The present volume (we are informed on good authority) is exclusively his own--and, if so, on the score of style alone it is a remarkable curiosity. But its matter also is curious."--London Quarterly Review for July.

"A tale of sorrow that has lain long in a rich mind, like a ruin in a fertile country, and is not the less gravely impressive for the grace and beauty of its coverings ... at the same time the most determined novel-reader could desire no work more fascinating over which to forget the flight of time.... No sketch of foreign oppression has ever, we believe, been submitted to the English public by a foreigner, equal or nearly equal to this volume in literary merit. It is not unworthy to be ranked among contemporary works whose season is the century in which their authors live."--London Examiner.