15 JULY 1882, page 23

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WHILE the English Palestine Exploration Society were making their survey of Western Palestine, the American Society under- took the survey of Eastern Palestine. But when the......

A Key To Tennyson's "in Memoriam." By Alfred Getty, D.d.

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Thirteen Satires of .Tuvenai. Translated into English by H. A. Strong, M.A., and Alexander Leeper, DZ.A. (Macmillan and Co.)— The translators, both Oxford men, and both holding......