27 SEPTEMBER 1873, page 22

The Metric System.*

IN the month of August, 1866, the Hon. J. A. Kurson, at that time Chairman of a Committee of the American House of Repre- sentatives on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, addressed......

The African Sketch-book.* If Mr. Win Wood Reade's Two...

had been reduced to one, and that one had been severely revised, everything which does not relate to Africa rejected,.and all that does arranged with some- thing like system,......

Ireland In 1872.*

WHATEVER complaints Ireland may have to make as to the attention paid her by British legislators, she has no complaint to make as to the attention paid her by British......