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The Drama Of The Criminal Court.

SCANDAL is aroused in the usual manner by the applications which overwhelmed the Sheriff for seats to witness the trial of the Mannings ; to which people rushed as to a play.......

Books.

MISS PARDOE'S FRANCIS THE FIRST. * THIS work has a critical advantage over the writer's Louis the Four- teenth, in its greater wholeness. The materials have been better digested......

The Morning Chronicle On The State Of The Poor.

CRITICISM on the reports of the Morning Chronicle Commission of Inquiry into the state of the Industrial Poor would be alto- gether premature—conclusions upon the scanty data......