Missionary and philology reviews praise rigorous works
A dense critique highlights Dr. Anderson’s mission literature and The Training Schools under Government Inspection 1870 71. It also covers Joseph Edkins’s China’s Place in Philology, praising its aim to reconcile Scripture and science and noting its appeal to devout readers and general curiosity.
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American Board of Foreign Missions
Birmingham
National Education League
China
Europe
Asia
Joseph Edkins
London Missionary Society
Pekin
Trubner and Co
Edkins
Edkin
Royal Academy Exhibition Opens in May
The Royal Academy Exhibition will open May 3 and run until July 31. An exhibition of ancient and modern jewellery and personal ornaments will open at the South Kensington Museum in June. Princess Louise heads the committee of management. Blackwood and Sons will publish in May a short poem volume by Alfred Austin titled Interludes. The Metropolitan Board of Works will rename Oakley-square Chelsea Carlyle-square. VEGETARIAN Enthusiasm M M Gleizés spent forty years opposing meat and promoted herb diets. He published volumes praising herbs while Rousseau disagreed with his practice.
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Royal Academy
South Kensington Museum
Louise
Messrs. Blackwood and Sons
Alfred Austin
Metropolitan Board of Works
Oakley-square
Chelsea
Carly
Food Journal
Jamaica Committee Revived to Back Bowring Motion on Eyre Vote
In London the Jamaica Committee, dormant for two years, was revived to back Mr Bowring's move to reject the Government's plan to submit ex Governor Eyre's legal expenses to the House of Commons. Other items cover the Trouporne case, a Park Lane murder, a queen's outraged case, and issues on the French commercial treaty and agricultural child labor laws.
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Jamaica CommiTtee
Daily News
Eyre
House of Commons
Bowring
Trouporne
Central Criminal Court
Thomas Chambers
Grand Jury
Roger Tichborne
Montagu Williams
Stockina
Parx Lang
No. 13
Parklane
Maria Caroline Besson Riel
Marguerite Beiblanes
O’connor
Poland
Archibald
Hume Williams
Earl Granville
Clare Read
Tamworth
Congregational
J. J. Brown
F. Schnadhorst
Frost harms fruit trees amid London frost flare
The article notes great injury to fruit trees, especially pears, from recent frost around London, despite blossoms appearing unscathed. It also recounts student irony explanations for Dryden and quirky anecdotes from a Cedar Rapids masquerade and Royal anecdotes about King George III and theatre tastes.
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London
Dryden
Dreid
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Daily Observer
Journal
Rock Island
Ilinois
Argus
Grover
Tulip
George III
House of Lords
George
Births Marryings and Deaths Odd Notices
Howat wife of Rev George R Howat B A of Pellattgrove Wood Green gave birth to a daughter on March 27. Somerton Shaw on March 26 wed George Somerton Chemist Torquay to Mary Helen Shaw. Thatcher Roberts on March 25 wed Elizabeth Roberts at Shortwood Baptist Chapel. Osborne Ann aged about 90 the wife of Samuel Osborne of Church Green Marden Kent died March 29.
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Samuel Shaw
Clevedon
Somerset
Thatcher
Roberts
Baptist
Samuel Osborne
Church Green
Marden
Kent
Kinahan's Irish Whisky and Holloway's Purifying Pills Promoted
An advertisement extols Kinahan's LL Irish Whisky as pure and wholesome with a Great Titchfield Street seal. It also touts Holloway's Potent Purifying and Tonic Pills as a safe spring remedy to regulate disordered actions and strengthen health for all ages and travelers.
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Kinanan
Kinahan
Great Titchfield Street
Oxford Street
W. Holloway
Holloway
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