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African Travellers.—letters From Alexandria, Of The...

the death of Captain Woodfall, a gentleman who had been sent out by the African Society to explore the interior of Africa. Captain Woodfall was to have penetrated into Africa......

Oxford Musical Festival.

THE Universities have not, of late years, been the distingOshed patrons of music. Those who orig inally planned and regulated the Cathedral service of our National Church,......

Rewards Of Literature.

THE question whether public rewards are properly assigned to lite- rature, which was started by the Englishman's Magazine in con- sequence of the discontinuance of the pensions......