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F. W. Newman's Miscellanies.*

IT is not always by the main tasks of authors that their readers profit most. No principal subject can be discussed thoroughly without extensive inquiries that only assist the......

Current Literature.

Planchette: the Despair of Science. (Roberts: Boston, U.S.)—Da oar readers know what this is that makes science despair? "Blanchette '” is the name given to an ingeniously......