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The Secrets Of The Ether.*

Moe. OWEN, who is Lecturer on Physics at the Birkbeck College, has done a useful piece of work in reprinting a series of articles which he contributed to the Electrician during......

Hester Piozzi And Penelope Pennington.* The Letters In...

collection do not begin till after the period in which Mrs. Thrale lives in literary history, She became Mrs. Piozzi in 1784. Johnson died within a few months. She compiled her......

An English Friend Of Rdbens.* Dudley Carleton, Afterwards...

of Imbercourt and Viscount Dorchester, is a well-known figure in the diplo- matic history of the seventeenth century. His introduction to public life was unfortunate, for he was......