24 MAY 1862, page 20

Mr. George Meredith's "modern Love."* By

CLEVER bold men with any literary capacity are always tempted to write verse, as they can say so much under its artistic cover which in common prose they could not say at all.......

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IS SECESSION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ?* MOST English readers are inclined to treat with impatience arguments to show that secession is a violation of the American constitution.......