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Railway Results

Is an attempt at reviving the genuine broad comedy, where the follies and prevailing vices of the day were exposed, both in the higher and lower walks of life. The two principal......

Salt's Statistics Of Railways And Canals. The Titlepage...

volume is a tribute to the monomania of the day ; since railways are not more conspicuous in its pages than many other subjects. Mr. Samuel Salt's publication contains a vast......

Honour And Shame

Is a didactic novel, aiming to inculcate ethics by example and religion by putting phrases into the mouths of the persons. One purpose, and a very good one, is to show the......

Miss Costello ' S Rose Garden Of Persia.

THE design of Miss Costello is to present specimens of the Persian poets, with critical and biographical notices of their lives ; a task so dif- ficult that it may be doubted......