3 FEBRUARY 1872, page 19

Books.

MIDDLEMARCH.—PART II.* THE second book of Middlemareh is very tranquil reading ; there is but one interest in it that ever threatens to excite the warmer sympathies, and that......

Elementary Education. (to The Editor Of The Specraroa:1...

an arrangement of the following kind be fair to all parties, and save the country from the threatened secularize- tion ? Instead of the Government grants to elementary schools......