Reading the Contemporary Review and The Preachers Lantern
A reader summarizes features of The Contemporary Review issue and The Preacher's Lantern launch. It highlights essays by J Llewelyn Davies and W R Greg on theology and democracy, plus notes on Civil War era science and music ethics, ending with reviews and previews of forthcoming religious and literary works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Llewelyn Davies
Mr. Davies
Davies
Department of Things
W. R. Greg
Switzerland
America
France
Noel
England
Calderwood
Arthur Helps
Lalande
Palestrina
Handel
Bach
Marcello
Gluck
Piccini
Haydn
Cherubini
Beethoven
Rossini
Baldwin Brown
William Stigand
Good Words
Hugh Miller
Hugh * Miller
Pater Bayne
Giox
Aborigines Protection Society
Anti-Slavery Society
Demerara
Dr. McLeod
Henry W. Bellows
Mr. Stowe
Leicester School Board nominees fill diverse slate
The Leicester School Board election closes nominations for thirteen seats on the 11th with candidates including Churchmen Independents Baptists Unitarians and others totaling forty seven. The contest is expected to be close and resignations are due by Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leicester
Tag FunEeratory
Joan Wattens
St. Catherine’s Church
Bearwood
Walter
John Walter
Times
Evection Intelligence
Navan
Kells
Meath
John Martin
Plunkett
Martin
Plunket
West Norfolk
T. de Grey
Lord Walsingham
Holborn Board of Guardians
Corbett
Poor Law Board
Board of Trade
United States
Russia
Odd Snippets of Victorian Curiosities and Witty Tales
A collage of brief anecdotes and observations from a London era. It covers a logic professor and a pupil’s clever reply about sight, a Boston nouveau riche dinner, a London workhouse porter visiting the Premier, a California minister’s wife preaching, praise for Mdlle Christine Nilsson, antique toothache musings, Ben Jonson’s goose joke, and reflections on English domestic duties from a French exile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Edinburgh
Boston
Liverpool Mercury
Ormskirk
Luke Hemer
Hemer
Hawarden
Luke
Mr. Gladstone
C. G. Ames
California
Hartford Post
Christine Nilsson
Weymouth
Guardian
Ben Jonson
Lord Craven
Ben
Jonson
Orners
France
London
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Hodder and Stoughton
E. Paxton Hoon
D. Lonewitt
James Parsons
Miscellanesus
Messrs. Hurst and Blackett
Her Majesty’s Tower
W. Slepworth Dixon
Clementina Davies
Crown
Conant Beugnot
Napoleon I
C. M. Yonge
Athens
William Bewick
Thomas Landseer
A.E
Sir Edwin Landseer
Harvey
Ickwell Bury
Lodge