Review of Leisure Hour and a host of periodicals
The Leisure Hour features notable pieces by Dr Rimbault Canon Rawlinson Whymper and Wright with lighter articles and a strong Pages for the Young. Cassell's Family Magazine Scribner's and The Quiver receive praise for tales and religious papers while Little Folks and Scribner's Illustrated offer child friendly items. The Evangelical General Baptist United Presbyterian and Christian Globe receive varied coverage with strong biographical and religious content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Hebich
Rimbault
Canon Rawlinson
Whymper
Wright
Palmyra
Cape
George Mac Donald
Mr. Mossman
Lincolnshire
Julian Hawthorne
Cassell
Family
Jackson
George MacDonald
Thomas Wingfield
Vaughan
American Monthly
Dickiyson
Katharine Erle
Gabriel Conroy
Scribner
Beecher Stowe
Richard
Canon Pusey
Evangelical
Baldwin Brown
Frederick Stephens
General Baptist
Jesus
Barnardo
Christian Church
United Presbyterian Magazine
Scottish Congregational
Christian Globe
Dean Stanley
Brief Notices on Apocalypse Predictions and History
A compact critique of James H. Bracno's History and Revelation volume two, noting continued apocalyptic historic parallels. The reviewer admits limited reading of the six hundred pages and refrains from misrepresenting the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibbon
Mezery
D'aubigné
James H. Bracno
London
Seeley, Jackson, and Haliday
Books in review: fairy tale, sermons and garden life
A period review critiques Cinderella a New Version of an Old Story by S Tinsley noting its lack of contents yet charming tone and global setting. Fifty Sermons by T De Witt Talmage is praised for style. Nonconformist history in Idle by J Horsfall Turner is valued for facts though printed roughly. Addresses to Young Clergymen by C J Varaway cited for practical clerical guidance. The Dwellers in our Gardens by Sara Wood is welcomed as a readable garden companion for families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Tinsley
Philadelphia
England
T. de Witt Tatmane
D.D
Dickinson
Talmage
Airedale College
J. Horsratt Turner
Bradford
T. Brear
Turner
Idle
Yorkshire
Salisbury
C.J. Varaway
Macmillan and Co
Vaughan
Cambridge
Oxford
Doncaster
Temple
Sara Wood
Church Sunday-school Association
Miss Wood
New South Wales funds bronze Captain Cook statue in Hyde Park
NSW votes four thousand pounds for a bronze heroic statue of Captain Cook to be erected in Hyde Park Sydney. The commission is entrusted to Mr Woelner RA with election of corresponding fellows to the Royal Academy of Rome and other learned societies. A proposal from Mr G Westenhorn JP offers ten thousand pounds for a working men’s institute and mission house with vicar to raise another ten thousand pounds to support the project and cover excess costs. The plan has been accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Wales
Captain Cook
Hyde Park
Sydney
Woelner
Herbert Spencer
Mora
M. Laboulaye
Ferdinand Gregorovius
Reyal Academy of
Rome
Shofield Independent
G. Westenhorn
J P
Oswestry polling oddities and temperance talks noted
At Oswestry a voter from Leitrim caused a scene in the polling booth accusing Mr. Leighton of an illegal vote while Mr. Ormsby Gore was observed voting. Ellesmere reported a farmer bragging of marking Leighton. A Bristol clergy conference on intemperance discussed causes and remedies with no resolutions. Scattered statistics on drunkenness in Scotland and a Derby plan on land ownership are also cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Legge
Oswestry
North Shropshire
W. Ormsby Gore
Leitrim
Stanley Leighton
Ormsby Gore
Mr. Leighton
Leighton
Mr. Mainwaring
Noumtes
Gore
Ormsby-Gore
Ireland
Ellesmere
Bristol
Liverpool
Scotland
Cameron
Glasgow
Englano
England
Wales
Lord Derby
Mill
Bright
John Lambert
Local Government Board
England and Wales
United Kingdom
Leicester
Leicestershire
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