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CONTENTS OF
OF VOL.
VOL. XL

RUSSIA, PERSIA, AND ENGLAND. By Sir Lepel Griffin

A WARNING TO IMPERIALISTS By Mrs. Lecky

COMMERCIAL UNION OF THE EMPIRE By Sir Frederick Young

REFORMATION AND REUNION. By George W. E. Russell

FROM THE EMPEROR OF CHINA TO KING GEORGE III. Translated by E. H.

Parker.

THE BAB AND BABISM. By J. D. Rees
WALTER VON DER VOGELWEIDE, THE MINNESINGER. By Walter Alison

THE MATRIARCHAL FAMILY SYSTEM. By Professor Edward B. Tylor

THE WOMAN MOVEMENT IN GERMANY. By the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell

ALVAR NUNEZ By R. B. Cunninghame Graham

THE STORY OF THE MANITOBA SCHOOLS QUESTION. By T. C. Down

THE MUSIC HALLS. By Frederick Wedmore

ARE MANNERS DISAPPEARING FROM GREAT BRITAIN? By the Earl of

Meath.

Swinburne

SISYPHUS IN IRELAND: 25 LAND ACTS IN 26 YEARS.

(1) WAR TO THE KNIFE. By W. L. Alden

By the Rev. Father Clarke

(2) SUGGESTIONS FOR A COMPROMISE. By William Dillon
THE TRAINING OF A JESUIT
LI HUNG CHANG. By A. Michie
RECENT SCIENCE (Life in the Moon-Animal and Human Psychology). By
Prince Kropotkin

NEW LETTERS OF EDWARD GIBBON. By Rowland E. Prothero

THE FEDERATION MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALASIA. By Sir Edward Braddon

レ THE DECLINE OF COBDENISM. By Sidney Low

THE GOD WHO PROMISED VICTORY TO THE MATABELE. By Joseph Millerà

Orpen

187

NATURE Versus THE CHARTERED COMPANY. By the Hon. John Scott Montagu 194

THE BATTLE OF THE STANDARDS IN AMERICA

Forster.

THE INFLUENCE OF BAYREUTH. By J. A. Fuller Maitland.
THE BAPTISM OF CLOVIS. By the Rev. Dr. Jessopp
SKETCHES MADE IN GERMANY. By Mrs. Blyth
SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF CARDINAL NEWMAN. By Aubrey de Vere.
AT SEA. By Martin Morris

THE JEW-BAITING ON THE CONTINENT. By Dr. Emil Reich.
ON INDUCTIVE MORALITY. By the Marchese Nobili-Vitelleschi
BOILING MILK. By Mrs. Percy Frankland

LIFE IN POETRY: POETICAL CONCEPTION.

240

260

By Professor Courthope

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY: A REMINISCENCE. By Wilfrid Ward

THE QUALITY OF MERCY. By Ouida

274

A REAL MAHATMAN. By Professor Max Müller

ARBITRATION WITH AMERICA. By John Morley

293

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WHY SOUTH AFRICA can WAIT. [Letter to Editor.] By Melius de Villiers 338

THE HIGH OAKS: BARKING HALL, JULY 19, 1896.

By Algernon Charles

341

By H. O. "Arnold-

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