13 JANUARY 1872, page 11

A Duke In The Pulpit.

T HE Duke of Somerset has published hi a thin volume* a series of short Opposition speeches against the Christian theology, which are conceived too much in the same caustic Whig......

W The Wit And Wisdom Of George Eliot. E Will Not

say that the writer who signs herself "George Eliot" is the only female humourist who has written in English, for there is much delicate and subtle humour in Miss Thackeray's......