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The Conduct of Life. By R.W. EMERSON Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 288. It is a singular fact, that Mr. Emerson is the most steadily attractive lecturer in America. Into that somewhat cold-waterish region adventurers of the sensation kind come down now and then with a splash, to become disregarded King Logs before the next season. But Mr. Emerson always draws.
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