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Rh candour.—Should an humanized generation find relief from a litles hour in the reveries of an iron age, the dut hall be bruhed off two or three more volumes of old tales, and they hall be trimmed for open market. And for myelf I engage, if I can once more lay hold of the tranlator, to extort from him a full account of their real origin.—Should they be rejected, as too plain and artles for the intellectual palate of thee times, the recital would afford no gratification to curioity. Rh