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  2. LITERARY.

    A CHINESE POETESS.—Mr. J. Macray gives an interesting account of a Chinese poetess named Kae-Yven. She was a female servant in the emperor's palace. When the imperial ...

    Article : 337 words
  3. THE NATURALIST.

    DR. J. W. BURNETT recently related before the Boston Natural History Society some experiments and investigations made with the rattlesnake, which will be found interesting. ...

    Article : 1,040 words
  4. THE DISCOMFORTS OF SAVAGE LIFE.

    IN serious circles it is still believed that all Germans think and say much the same thing, and people talk vaguely of "dangerous German notions." Persons not quite so ...

    Article : 2,006 words
  5. SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.

    IRON VERSUS STEEL RAILS.—A series of interesting experiments on the comparative durability of iron and steel rails has lately been carried out on the Cologne-Minden Railway. ...

    Article : 688 words
  6. EUROPEAN CHARACTER.

    THE following appears in a German paper: In religion the German is sceptical, the Englishman devont, the Frenchman zealous, the Italian ceremonious, the Spaniard bigotted. ...

    Article : 589 words
  7. HOBART PASHA ON THE CRISIS.

    HOBART PASHA, the Commander of the Turkish Fleet, who is now on a visit to England, writes as follows to the Times:— It is with the greatest satisfaction that I ...

    Article : 433 words
  8. GERMAN CRITICISM OF RUSSIAN STRATEGY.

    THE strategy and tactics of the Russo-Turkish War (says the Berlin correspondent of the Times) are the subject of an important book, just published at Berlin by Captain von ...

    Article : 437 words
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