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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 04, 1872
Page
5
The article honors Mrs Somerville highlighting her lifelong pursuit of science. It states she remained fully capable and at work on profound mathematical problems to the end. Her wish to be buried where she died is fulfilled as she rests in the Protestant Cemetery at Naples, a grave often visited by Anglo-Saxon tourists.
Archdeacon Denison faced a baptismal dispute as East Brent villagers flooded with flour and rotten eggs to thwart immersion. The incident leaves the parish divided, warning church leaders against hair-splitting casuistry and urging responsible teaching to avoid wider dissension.
The piece notes a rumour that Robert Browning works on a new poem though he publishes slowly. It mentions his past works including Paracelsus and Men and Women, and jokes about dinners hindering authorship. It forecasts new journals such as Long Ago Day of Rest London Weekly News Gossip and AMask revival. B.
The Saturday Review doubts fixed limits on achievement noting Chaucer Scott Edgeworth Humboldt and others who began or completed great works after forty. It cites Baron Stockmar memoirs about 1862 commissions and Queen Victoria signing vastbacklogs, likening it to Sisyphus.
The passage asks which Parliament was removed only in 1862, noting the wonder it wasn’t done earlier. It suggests Queen Victoria would have struck if the custom had remained, calling striking a recognised modern institution and imagining the sensation a royal strike would have caused.
An American novelty reports Professor Tyler of the State University delivering English literature lectures to prisoners at the Michigan Prison. The piece notes this humane idea as superior to the treadmill and contemplates similar reforms if they cross the Atlantic, offering cultural uplift at low cost.
The speech lauds domestic peace and prosperity, notes no threat to the nation, and praises arbitration outcomes with Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and Switzerland. It mentions the San Juan decision refining boundaries, calls for a commissioners board to assess indemnification, and thanks allied powers for arbitration efforts. The text ends with a reference to an approaching Exhibition.
The message discusses funding for exhibition shipments to Trieste, honors President Juarez, and hopes Mexico's new leader will strengthen regional ties. It notes no Cuba pacification progress under Grant, slavery impediments, emigration law inaction, and Venezuela’s failure to pay a 1866 award. It also mentions unchanged Japan relations and US hopes for China-Japan trade gains.
The advertisement offers 250 guineas for the best essay on the temperance question and 150 guineas for the second best with a twelve month preparation period. The report also notes other items including a libel case involving Hepworth Dixon, and university bursaries won by Arnold Kennedy at Edinburgh University.
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