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The Contemporary Review. January, 1872. (strahan.)—a Good...

constituency of the Review will probably be best pleased with the Bishop of Tasmania's somewhat Utopian, but attrac- tive, dream of a future Church in which all Protestant sects......

The Cornhill Magazine. January, 1872. (smith, Elder, And...

has no padding this month of much merit, the paper on Spain being the best, and that a little thin, as if it were written by a man who disliked and despised Spain too much to......

St. Pads. January, 1872. (strahan.)—,r. Paull Is Relying...

two stories, one a posthumous romance called Septimius," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and another, " Off the Skelligs," by Miss Ingelow. It is not unwise. Hawthorne's story is......

Value And Encourage, And Of Which Members Of Parliament Must

stand in wholesome dread. It is a plain, unvarnished record of what every re- presentative of the people has done, that is to say, it gives a list of the divisions which took......

"street Ballads Of Ireland," With A Profusion Of Examples...

the songs actually sung in the streets, songs as different from anything the Nation publishes as the songs of an English country beerhouse are from those of Dibdin. The......

Many Thoughts Of Many Minds. By Henry Southgate. Second...

(Griffin.)—Mr. Southgate finds in the success of his first series an ample justification for the publication of a second. There are numbers of readers whose time and means......

Fraser's Magazine. January, 1872. (longulans.)—all Who...

think pages 120-122 in this number worth the price of the magazine. They contain Von Moltke's opinion, formed in 1837, when he was still military adviser to the Sultan, on the......

Blackwood. January, 1872. (blackwood And Son.)—the Third

article on "French Home Life," called "Furniture," is not equal to the other two, the writer passing away too often from description to disqui- sition, and believing a little......