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Captain Galton On The Efficacy Of Prayer.

T HE scientific men, the men, that is, who hold it weakness to believe strongly anything not supported by material evi- dence, evidence which can be tested by the senses, appear......

The Melancholy Of " Middlemarch."

R EADING the August number of " Middlemarch," the fifth portion—and we know of no intellectual luxury quite com- parable to that operation—we gain afresh the sense of the deep......