New Educational Titles Noted In Recent Publications
The review praises Dicx's Geography and Atlas and a railway sketch feature as useful additions. It highlights Seeley’s cheap school books including Horace Odes Ovid and Cesar select passages, edited by noted scholars. It also commends Standard Reading Books from Lockwood and Co and the Technical Readers Book from Laurig for meeting the new code, while noting room for greater appeal in prose selections.
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Dicx
United Kingdom
Messrs. Seeley
Horace
W. J. Brosriss
Ovid
A. J. Cuurea
Cesar
F. B. Butler
Afilon
Hockey
Mark
Lockwood and Co
A. R. H. Grant
Laurig
John Marshall and Co
Various cultural notes from the era in York Minster to Royal Institution lectures
A bulletin of science and arts items reports the York Minster south transept restoration, Mrs. Oliphant's work on Montalembert, auroral displays, Eliot's Middlemarch, and the Crystal Palace Aquarium opening. It notes asteroid discoveries, Erckmann-Chatrain’s new work, a cantata at the Royal Albert Hall, a penny boys’ weekly, Cruikshank reproductions, sunspot observations, and Royal Academy exhibitions. Royal Institution lectures are announced with Tyndall’s ice water and air series and other science and literature topics, along with a dinner invitation to London booksellers.
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York Minster
Crystal Palace Aquarium
Owen
Frank Buckland
Watson
Ann Arbor
U.S
Popular Science Review
MM. Erckmann-Chatrain
Cornhill
George Cruikshank
Puttick and Simpson
Denning
Bristol
Observing Astronomical Society
N.E
Royal Academicians
Atheneum
Reynolds
Gainsborough
Royal InstituTion
Tyndall
Wm. Rutherford
Odling
W. G. Clark
Trinity College
Cambridge
Moncure D. Conway
W. R. Grove
Q.C
Westminster
Humphrey
Gladstone
C. W. Siemens
R.iebrich
John Evans
Murray
Books Published This Season At The Retail Rooms
A display of forthcoming works and general publications shows numerous titles to be issued in November and December. Notable items include Shaw Travel in High Tartary and Elze Life of Lord Byron among translations, Grote on Aristotle and Greece, Fergusson on rude stone monuments, Porter's Life of Dr Cook, Muster's adventures in Patagonia, Jervis History of the Church of France, a Boy's Voyage Round the World, Levi History of British Commerce, Lyall Principles of Geology, Smiles Character, Speaker's Commentary, Whymper Alps, and several series like History and Dictionaries. Large sales noted across Hallam, Milman, Smiles biographies, Smith dictionaries and courses, with many millions in expected volume.
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Mr. Shaw
High Tartary
Carl Elze
Lord Byron
Mr. Grote
Greece
Greece, In Ten Vols., 1,000 Mr. Fergusson
Dr. Porter
Dr. Cook
Belfast
Captain Muster
Patagonia
Jervis
France
World
Professor Levi
Sir Charles Lyall
Mr. Smiles
Dean Milman
Smiles
Dr. Smith
Professor Blunt
Dr. Child
Mrs. Markham
Sir Henry Maine
Dean Stanley
Murray
Grote
Little Arthur
England
Fraudulent Degree Scams Exposed in 1871 Letters
A Times advertisement note reveals a traffic in bogus German and American degrees and medical titles. A pastor exposes schemes offering PhD, DD, LLD, and MDs, detailing requirements, costs, and the dubious legitimacy of foreign and American universities.
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Times
Malachi and Peter Ear Cutoff Quip Surfaces in Exam
A college divinity exam prompt prompted a student to declare that Malachi, the last prophet, cut off Peter's ear, with the joke noted as a language misunderstanding. The remark reflects humorous misinterpretation of biblical narratives and commentary in a casual context.
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Malachi
Peter
Acquittal in Dublin Murder Trial Leads to Public Celebrations
In Dublin Kelly was acquitted of the murder charge after a trial in which the jury sided with the defense that Talbot died from hospital mistreatment, not the gun. Crowds celebrated in multiple cities while others faced punishment for publishing an inflammatory article. A separate incident in Limerick saw a retired sub inspector shot at but grazed.
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Kelly
Talbot
Dublin
Butt
Q.C
Falkiner
Kilmainham
Mullen
Mr. Butt
Mr. Falkiner
Cork
Limerick
Dundalk
Waterford
Pigott
The
Irishman
Whiteside
Boyd
Richmond Prison
Cecil Street
Constabulary
Mr. Kelly
Tichborne Case Trial Progress in London Court
The Tichborne case proceeds before Chief Justice Bovill with a special jury. Witnesses Andrew Bogle and John Moore testify about identity while George Bingley links an 1853 Santiago arrival to Sir Roger Tichborne. Librarian Joseph Nanton recalls Roger in the Carabineers and confirms recognition of the claimant.
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Bovill
John Moore
Roger Tichborne
George Bingley
London
Tichborne
Santiago
Joseph Nanton
Westminster Hospital
Dragoons
Carabineers
John M.court
Wm. Andrews
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London Weekly Review
Germany
America
Ireland
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