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   the memory. The Christmas books preparing are to eclipse in beauty all previous works of the kind.

The third and fourth volumes of Frederick the Great, completing Mr. Carlyle's great work, are passing through the press, and will be published early next summer. Robert Browning has returned to England, after a residence of more than fifteen years in Italy, where he remained for the health of the gifted creature who has lately passed away to another world. The poetical remains of Mrs. Browning will shortly be published under his superintendence. The poet-laureate is in London secretly consulting his physicians. For some time past Mr. Tennyson has been the most courted man in England, the object of special interest in every brilliant gathering where the Hon could by any ingenious device be caught; and now that he is seriously ill, his friends are prohibited from letting it be known that he is in town,

Mr. William Westgarth, who was the last member for Melbourne in the Sidney Legislature, has published a book on the Rise and Progress of Australia, which aspires to be a more comprehensive work than previous publications on the