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Mr. Ralph Watson's Plan For Preventing Ships Foundering...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIR—It is almost a national religion with Britons to delight in every in- vention which tends to benefit humanity : a feeling altogether national......

Science And Scientific Men. .

LONDON ILLUMINATED FROM THE COUNTRY.—Illahnost all the countries of Europe, the capital is the centre of civilization, whence proceed the beams which enlighten and civilize the......

Oak Woods In Poor Soils.

WE are often too rash in deciding on the quality of soil adapted for trees of different kinds. On the confines of the Dutch province of Guelderland, in the Prussian contiguous......

Gleanings.

GREAT RESULTS FROM SMALL. BEGINNINGS.-17112 possibility of a great change being introduced by very slight beginnings, may be illustrated by the tale which Lockman tells of a......

Geography For Children.

A SMALL book of Geography, containing its first elements, has just appeared under the auspices of Mr. MURRAY : it is to Mr. CROKER. When men of undoubted talent and established......