North British Review Highlights Broad Scholarship and Original Viewpoints
The North British Review showcases erudite essays aimed at a cultured audience. Notable pieces include Assyrian Annals, Parpaglia's Mission to Queen Elizabeth, Ben Jonson's Quarrel with Shakespeare, and analyses on Prussia agriculture, Westminster politics, and Papacy futures.
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The
North British Review
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Parpaglia
Hlizabeth
Ben Jonson
Prussia
Cisleithan
Prize for essay on Irrigation and sewage use
The Gardener's Magazine offers twenty guineas for the best essay on irrigation with special reference to sewage utilization. The Atlantic Cable reports repair of the 1866 Newfoundland End break and restored operation.
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Gardener's Magazine
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Atlantic Danne
Anglo-American Telegraph Company
Newfoundland
Norwich Petition and Norfolk Election News
An address to Earl Spencer appeals to suppress sectarian processions in Norwich. The Norwich election petition against Mr Tillett, a Liberal, follows Judge Byles ruling that prior show of hands disqualification cannot be revisited now. an appeal is planned with hearing not until November. A coroner’s inquest in Kent over a three month old infant from a God’s Peculiar People sect is noted. the jury returns manslaughter. parents set to be bailed. A remarkable meteor seen in northern England and Inveraray on the 15th inst, with a luminous vapour forming a horseshoe, drifting NW to SE. others report a bright meteor in Cambridgeshire Saturday night.
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Élérgymén
Cread
Earl Spéncer
Norwich
Jasthe Byles
Nepwich
Tillett
Eaton Martin
Justice Byles
Propiz
C.J. Carttar
Kent
Charlton-next-Woolwich
Thomas Savill
Hines
Central Criminal Court
Duke of Argyll
Times
England
Inverary
N.N.W
Cambridgeshire
Varied 19th century items and figures in Britain and beyond
A digest of odds and ends includes the Earl of Orkney declared bankrupt, a large Foresters fête at Crystal Palace, and satirical notes on Daphne turning into a tree. It records fines for short weights, urban curiosities in St Louis and London impostor antics, plus donations to the German Hospital at Dalston.
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Orkney
Crystal Palace
Daphne
London
St. Louis
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