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Thames Embankment.

The Committee of the Commons appointed to consider the Embank- ment of the Thames have issued their report, with the following resolu- tions— " That the embankment of the north......

Parliamentary Business.

IT was not to be expected that Mr. Ewart would succeed in carry- ing his resolutions. The evil he wished to combat is ac- knowledged by men of all parties in the House, and......

The Eastbourne Case And Inspection Of Schools. Of Schools.

THERE is yet another moral from the Eastbourne case, which ought not to be lost. It is a grand lesson on the principles in vogue on education. One tit these false principles is......

Books.

WICKLAND'S CURIOSITIES OF NATURAL HISTORY. * ENCOURAGED by the well-deserved successs of his First Series, Mr. Buckland has written a companion volume to it which will doubt-......