7 FEBRUARY 1880, page 17

A Beleaguered City.*

WHAT the people and mayor of Semur will say to this very bold interpolation of Mrs. Oliphant's in the records of their public life, we can hardly imagine. Probably they will......

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POLITICIANS OF TO-DAY.* THESE sketches, Mr. Reid tells us, were "originally written to supply the readers of a provincial newspaper with informa- tion which they might have......