6 MAY 1871, page 16

A Good Novellette.* As Admirable Little Miniature...

dreary padding, and only one fault, a bad title, which hardly suggests anything at first, and even when explained by the story is not found to fit it_ In that State of Life' is......

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THE GENESIS OF SPECIES.* Tars Origin of Life, the Genesis of Species, the Descent of Man— such are the grand problems which now-a-days engage the atten- tion of philosophic......