Wordsworth and English Literature in School Education
A critical survey praises Dr Morell and his study of Wordsworth within the broader canon. The work treats major poets including Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton with depth, adds exercises and questions, and argues English literature can be taught effectively in schools, highlighting Wordsworth as central to national thought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Milton
Wordsworth
Morell
Words
Pope
England
The New Handbook of Illustration Review
The introduction by Rev. Punshon highlights illustration as a key preacher’s aid, urging refinement of thought to illuminate truth without alarm. The work, with nearly two hundred subjects, aims at personal spiritual culture and aid to public speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev
W. Morary Puisnon
London
Elliot Stock
Punshon
Malcolm and Notes on Arts and Licensing Debates
Miscellaneous items include Dr. George MacDonald's new fiction Malcolm to be serialized in the Glasgow Weekly Herald and details on Holman Hunt's commission for The Shadow of Death. The Sunday at Home describes Freemore Mausoleum costs over £200,000 funded by the Queen. Tut Barbapers Gas Company offers 20,000 shares at 5 each for a 15 year lighting concession in a West Indian island. The Home Secretary and licensed victuallers discuss a licensing hours bill with private member prospects and ministerial views, plus a Lambeth reception for Mr Arch on returning from Canada and remarks on agricultural labour movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George MacDonald
J. Stone
London
Lowe
Mr. Villiers
Mr. Lowe
Arch
Lambeth Baths
Canada
J.C. Cox
Derby
Llewelyn Davies
United States
In His Name A Story of the Dark Ages
A review notes Edward E. Haus tale set five centuries ago during Peter Waldo and the Poor Men of Lyons. John of Logio appears as a grateful figure while the plot centers on a child's illness and recovery. The author crafts cabinet pictures of Lyons with beauty and dramatic narration.
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Edward E. Haus
Sampson Low
Peter Waldo
Lyons
Mr. Hale
John of
Logio
Hale
Emigrant Labour Debate Shapes Ontario Meeting
Mr Arch argues Canada welcomed skilled workers with better terms than England offering land to labourers at farmer rates. He warns against exporting labor while farmers supply beef and pork at lower costs. He predicts political power shifting to farm laborers as Ontario's Col Denison speaks at the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arch
England
Canada
United States
Colonel Denison
Government of
Ontario
London Necropolis Company Funeral Services Offer Economy
The London Necropolis Company promotes simple, economical funerals with prospects free. Chief Office at 2 Lancaster Place Strand W C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Necropolis Company
Prospectus Free
Lancaster-place
Strand
W.C
Breakfast and patent cures in one column
An assortment of patent health products and tonics including Epps's Cocoa praised for aiding digestion and guarding against heavy doctors' bills. Also advertisements for Judson's Dyes and Kinahan's whisky, plus Holloway's Pills and Ointment claiming to aid liver health and biliousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epps
Civil Service Gazette
James Epris & Co
Homeopathic Chemists
London
Irian
Kinahan's
Great Titchfield St
Oxford St
Derr
Harp
Holloway
Markets Report from English Wheat and Cattle Trades
Market notes on Monday December 15 detailing English and foreign wheat prices and imports, flour and corn values, oats and barley demand, and port cargo values. Metropolitan cattle and sheep prices described, with notes on imports, Calves, Pigs, and meat market activity. London hops prices steady near year end. Batavia price signals. potato trade described as dull with price reductions.
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Corn Exchange
Marx Lang
Catile
London
Metropolitan
Covent Garden
Borouca
Batavia
Mia
East Kent
Weald of Kent
Sussex
Farnham and Country
Farnham
BorouGh and
Spitalfields
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