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REVIEWS.
So many books have been written of late years concerning the probable (or improbable) future of the world that one is hardly disposed to greet another volume with acclamation. Mr. Herbert differs ...
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ON BUSHRANGERS' HILL.
Rest, and be thankful. On the verge Of the tall cliff, rugged and grey, At whose granite base the breakers surge, And shiver their frothy spray, ...
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FUGITIVE NOTES.
Mr. Hutchison of Glen Innes is "spindling into intellectuality." This is not a touch of the prevailing epidemic or any other complaint known to the medical faculty, whatever the heedless use of ...
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TO WASHINGTON AND BACK.
I shall not attempt anything so impossible as a description of this marvellous city within the limits of a letter. One ought to be here three weeks or a month before he could expect to grasp the facts ...
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THE QUARTERLIES.
The October number of the Quarterly Review opens with a review of the life of the late Archbishop Tait, by this time a rather familiar subject. The writer tells this story about the consecration ...
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.
At the present time, when comment is repeatedly made, and with justice, upon the mediocrity shown by the playwrights of the present generation, it may be of interest to regard the recent revival of two ...
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Daphne and other Poems. By FREDERICK TENNYSON. Macmillan and Co.: London and New York, 1891.
In this very busy and somewhat prosaic age there are few people with sufficient leisure, and probably fewer still with the inclination, for reading a volume of poems containing over 500 pages, even if the ...
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OCTOBER MAGAZINES.
Longman's Magazine gives the second instalment of Mr. Froude's "Spanish Story of the Armada," from the second start of the fleet from Corunna on the 22nd July. Bad weather met it again ...
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John Bull and his Other Island, by ARTHUR BENNETT. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Limited, 4 Statloners' Hall-court, E.C. Warrington: Sunrise Publishing Company.
Mr. Bennett's book is a record of three rather hasty visits paid to Ireland between 1884 and 1887. The title of the work is somewhat infelicitous, inasmuch as it seduces the render into half-unconscious ...
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CAMPING PARTIES.
Sir,—In the columns of your widely circulated paper I would like to draw the attention of the authorities (if there are any) to the disgraceful state in which camping partics leave their camps at Middle ...
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FISH OF ONE, FLESH OF ANOTHER.
Sir,—The Electoral Bill now in committee contains a clause removing a long-standing disability, by allowing Jewish voters to vote on their Sabbath and festivals in a manner similar to that legalised almost ...
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POLLING DAYS OF THE FUTURE.
Sir,—If there is anything in the eight-hour question, why are not its advocates consistent in applying it in all matters? Notwithstanding that in future polling day is to be ...
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CADHURY'S COCOA.
"CA[?]HURY'S COCOA has, in a remarkable degree, those natural elements of substance which give the system endurance and hardihood, building up muscle and bodily vigour with a steady action that renders it a most acceptable ...
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