24 APRIL 1875, page 23

The "encyclopedia Britannica" On American Literature.* Is...

Arthur Helps who, in his quietly paradoxical way, asserts that it is easier to praise those at a distance than those near at hand? " What ! prefer strangers to our own flesh and......

History And Geography.*

WE have always felt very strongly that no branch of English education has been so neglected, so ill-treated, and so misunder- stood as that of the really kindred subjects of......