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Pinney's Duration Of Human Life. * Ma. Joel Penney Is A

man of many hobbies connected with hu- man life or its conditions, which he makes no scruple of riding as far as a hobby can be made to go. With a good deal of reading, and......

Romanist Fictions. * From The Time When Hannah More Sent...

in Search of a Wife, religionists have made fiction a vehicle for their own opinions. Some writers with a natural turn for " heavy busi- ness" have done little more than throw a......