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The Canon's Ward.* Is Mr. Payn Going To Reverse The

general order of things with novelists, and do his best work last ? If this novel were his first, we should look very hopefully forward; and if Thicker than Water had been his......

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DR. WARD'S ESSAYS ON THEISM.* [FIRST NOTICE.] So many of these essays have already been discussed in these columns, on the occasion of their first publication in the Dublin.......