Sarah Martin The Prison Visitor of Great Yarmouth
A compact biography praising Sarah Martin born 1791 at Great Yarmouth who transformed care for sick children and prisoners. She built schools for factory girls, visited gaols, provided clothing, and reformed inmates through gentle firmness, earning rank with England’s philanthropists.
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Collins
Athens
Hookham Frere
Sarah Martin
Great Yarmouth
Religious Tract Society
Howard
Buxton
Wilberforce
Yarmouth
John Howard
England
Critical review of Morell English composition manual
The piece critiques a Dr. Morell named English composition manual, arguing the author disowns responsibility for it and condemns its synthesis method. It condemns misattribution, inconsistent rules, and cites Lewes and Johnson to illustrate better criticism, noting some usable materials for teaching despite flaws.
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G. H. Lewes
Pope
Macaulay
Thames
Dr. Johnson
Denham
Cooper's Hill
Outspoken critique of early English grammar and domestic reader
A review panel condemns Mason’s Outline of English Grammar as unsuitable for delaying analysis in favor of mastery. It also criticizes Mrs Wigley’s Murbys Special Readers for Girls for stiff tone and poor word definitions, urging revisions before use in elementary schools.
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Morell
C. P. Mason
B.A
London
Bell and Daldy
Mason
Marshfield
W. H. Wigley
Murley
Bouverie-street
Knatchbull-Hugessen Publishes Two Fairy Tale Works
E H Knatchbull-Hugessen, Under-Secretary for the Goton’ss, pens Redistribution of Political Power in Macmillan. He also releases Tales at Teatime, a new fairy story collection, while Miss Louisa Knatchbull-Hugessen issues a new edition of The History of Prince Perrypets.
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Goton’Ss
E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen
Macmillan
Dryden
Pope
Sandwich
Hugessen
Keats and Keatsiana Spark Fresh Attention in Paris and London
A flurry of Keats interest surfaces as Poynter shows superb Endymion illustrations for Moxon. Joaquin Miller prepairs Crispus in memory of Keats, while notes on alleged Keats forgeries reappear in Athenaeum. The Nile sonnet debate resurfaces via Leigh Hunt and Shelley, quoted from Life and Letters. News ends with obituary of Irish MP James Francis Maguire.
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Keats
Quarterly Review
Poynter
A.ra
Endymion
Messrs. Moxon
Joaquin Miller
Isles of the Amazons
Crispus
Athenaum
The
Nile
Leigh Hunt
Shelley
Lord Houghton
Cairo
Cork Editor and Mayor Maguire Dies at 1814 Birth
The Cork Examiner proprietor and four time Cork mayor born 1814 in Cork, Ireland. He was called to the bar in 1843 and led flax growth efforts. He authored The Pontificate of Pius IX and Fathers Mathew biography among others.
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Cork
Ireland
Maguire
Pius IX
Father Mathew
America
Oldest daily paper claims historic milestone in 101st year
The Aforning Post marks its 101st year since first appearing in November 1772, claiming status as the oldest daily newspaper. It notes rivals like Public Ledger 1759 and Jupiter 1788, with other papers such as Morning Chronicle 1769 and Daily News 1846 also long established.
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Public Ledger
Morning Chronicle
Morning Herald
Times and Morning Advertiser
Jupiter
Victuallers
Standard
Daily News
The
Telegraph
Publication announces new historical and biographical works
Publisher notes from Longman Sampson Low and Co. Macmillan and Co. reveal upcoming titles. Mr Froude's The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Buckle's Miscellaneous Works edited by Miss Helen Taylor, Santo Domingo Past and Present by Samuel Hazard, and The Personal Life of George Grote are listed for release. Mrs Grote and Lord Houghton contribute respectively, with Stanhope and Murray tied to December promises.
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Froude
Ireland
Henry Thomas Buckle
Helen Taylor
Messrs
Longman
Santo Domingo
Hayti
Samuel Hazard
Sampson Low and Co
George Grote
Lord Mahon
Murray
Messrs. Macmillan and Co
John Coleridge Patteson
D.D
Miss Yonge
Hidden relics beneath the city bones unearthed in Cheapside
The excerpt notes recent discoveries of ancient bones beneath urban depths in Cheapside with skulls of deer and wolves. fleeting references compare these finds to other sites in Southport and fields in Beds and Cambs where coprolite bone deposits yield valuable manure, likened to treasure and even gold.
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Wordsworth
England
Cheapside
Southport
Almanack notes and December literary promises
The piece recalls St Guy Fawkes history and William III’s Torbay landing, while critiquing almanac errors about the Orange throne. It highlights December literary promises including the Speaker's Commentary Volume II with Joshua, Ruth, Samuel, and 1 Kings annotations by T Espin, the Bath and Wells bishop, and Canon Rawlinson.
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Guy Fawkes
William
Torbay
England
House of Orange
Goldsmith
Joshua
T. Espin
Chester
Queen’s Collete
Birmingham
Ruth
Samuel
Bath and Wells
Canon Rawlinson
Pillow Philosophy Sparks Debate on Rational Beings
A discussion asserts that pillows, though not human, fall under the head of rational beings. The remark challenges traditional boundaries between living minds and inanimate objects in a lighthearted reflection.
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