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Mr. Darius's Story Of Corfe Castle. * In Addressing The...

of a Corfe Castle Society for Mutual Improvement, Mr. Bankes, instead of remote subjects, selects for the theme of his lucubrations an object whose ruins are before their eyes,......

Ele C T A. * If The Novel Of _rockingham (which

we never saw) resembles Elec- tra, the praises that have been bestowed upon the writer are exaggerated. The fiction before us does not exhibit events, cha- racters, and......

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URQUHART ON RUSSIA'S DESIGNS AND PROGRESS.. IT is unfortunate for the reputation and perhaps for the utility of the Russophobists, that they allow phobia to pass into mania, and......