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The Sliding Scale Of Life.•

FROM the day when Mr. Dickens published in "Household Words" the 'experience of three deteetives,bookstalls have abounded in stories of the feats of the police. The best of......

The High Church Recipe For Sceptical Tendencies.*

Tim attempt to meet the sceptic on his own ground by one who utterly distrusts the powers of the human mind to discern truth—who distrusts the "verifying" faculty, as one of the......

Encyclopedia Bititannica.*

Tan publication of the general Index to a new Encyclopedia, or what is virtually a new Encyclopedia, a completely remodelled edition of the largest national Encyclopedia, is an......