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CONTENTS.

Prescott’s Peru,	1
Crossing the Desert,	21
Life of Jean Paul Richter,	33
A Tale of the Masorcha Club—At Buenos Ayres,	47
Letter from a Railway Witness in London,	68
Sir H. Nicolas’s History of the Navy,	82
Evenings at Sea,	96
The Dog of Alcibiades,	102
Sir Robert Peel and the Currency,	113

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PRESCOTT’S PERU.1

The world’s history contains nochapter more striking and attractivethan that comprising the narrative ofSpanish conquest in the Americas.Teeming with interest to the historianand philosopher, to the lover of daringenterprise and marvellous adventureit is full of fascination. On the vastimportance of the discovery of a westernhemisphere, vying in size, as itone day, perhaps, may compete incivilisation and power, with itseastern rival, it were idle to expatiate.But the manner of its conquest commandsunceasing admiration. It needsthe concurring testimony of a host ofchroniclers and

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