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We understand that D. Lothrop Company have in presa a remarkably strong story by a New York lady which is eaid to be a relutation of much of "Robert Eismere." Dakota has 4,0G5 public schools. They are supported by a direct tax upon the people, amounting in a recent yesir to $1,G33,5G1- a sum which Mr. P. F. McClure says, in Harper's Magazine for February, is larger than that devoted to the same purpose by any one of twenty-four States. The Magazine of Art for February is a notable number. lts frontispiece is one that every American will want to cut out and frame the moment he sets hia eyes upon it, for it is probably the best portrait of Mr. Gladstone that has ever been published. The original is Millais' painting and this has been reproduced by the photogravure process with remarkable accuracy. A few pages further on and we are given a paper on " Mr. GUdstone and his Portrait, by T. Wemyss Reid, which is illustrated with capital engravings from various portraits and caricatures, a full page being devoted to the portrait made by Watts m 1858. To bridge over the dull months of January and February, Koen & Henne have concluded to offer their customers special inducements in íuruiture and carpeta.