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NEWSPAPERS V. BOOKS.
TRAVELLERS generally may be divided into two classes, fashioned after the model of the Idle ond the Industrious Apprentice. The industrious traveller in Europe does, all the picture galleries, cathedrals, and ...
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IN THE GALLERY.
To the Press-man anywhere in the British Islands, there is but one Gallery—that which runs across one end of the House of Commons, at the back of the Speaker's chair. The visitor who has spent an ...
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A LIMITED LIABILITY BANK.
THE lamentable results which attended the crisis of 1866 have done much to bring into popular discredit the principle of limited liability. A great proportion of the losses then incurred, and which are yet widely ...
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"THE DARK RECESSES OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE."
THESE are Mr. Cobden's words, and they were uttered in his last great speech. He used the word "dark" no doubt in both its senses, for his conviction of the practical badness of our foreign policy was as ...
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OBITUARY FOR 1868.
DURING the year that has just drawn to a close we have lost from the roll of the Peerage of the three kingdoms no less than thirty-two noblemen. The list is as follows:—The Earl of Carysfort, Lord ...
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