Review roundup in Blackwood and Cornhill 1871
A survey of periodical content notes Leslie Stephen on university reform and common lands, Jardine Smith on imperial ties, Blackwood attacks on Gladstone, Maid of Sver, Secret History of the Loire Campaign, Saint Pauls on Miseries of War, Miss Macquoid and Proctor pieces, Fleur de Lys war tale, Technical Education in England, Sir Walter Scott notes, Cowden Clarke Swift sketch, and other items. The July 1871 Popular Science Review also covers geology, bears and wolves, Greenland, Jupiter 1870 71, and South Kensington exhibition with critiques on dogmatic longer reviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Stephen
Stephen
Jardine Smith
Blackwood
Gladstone
House of Commons
Loire
General Chanzy
M. de Freycinet
Saint Paul's
Sedan
Bazeilles
Miss Macquoid
Proctor
Dorothy Fox
the Conqueror
Cornhill
Thornton
England
Walter Scott
Gentleman's Magazine
Cowden Clarke
Boyd Dawkins
Cooke
Greenland
Pengelly
South Kensington
Death of Rev Dr Mortimer Former City of London School Head
The Rev George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer D D late headmaster of the City of London School died at Rosehill Hampton aged about sixty seven He educated at Queen's College Oxford where he earned a first class in Litero Humaniores His tenure at the City of London School raised the institution with support from the Corporation of London and Aldermen Hale and Salomons He retired six or seven years ago and was followed as headmaster by Rev Edwin A Abbott He held a prebendal stall at St Pauls Cathedral since 1864 and remained dear to his former pupils willing to attend prize distributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mortimer
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer
City of London School
Rosehill
Hampton
Michel
Queen's College
Oxford
Corporation of London
Hale and
Salomons
Edwin A. Abbott
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Brighton poisoning case closes with Edmunds committed for trial
The inquiry into the Brighton poisoning case ends with Miss Christiana Edmunds committed for trial on four counts including willful murder of a boy and attempts to murder three others. Prosecution abandons four additional charges of poisoning children.
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Brighton
Christiana Edmunds
Parker
Beard
Boys
Garrett
R. N. Fowler
Falmouth
Rockstraw
Elms House
Babbicombe
Watcombe
Messrs
Edward Lamb
Yorkshire
Malton
A diverse 1870s notice roundup from a British paper
A long column covers Dr Archers election as medical officer for Southampton Workhouse, Norfolk foot and mouth outbreak figures, a Blackfriarsbridge to Greenwich tram opening, Listowel school withdrawals over rumour, Mont Blanc ascent, the Lancashire Fasting Girl story, proposed swimming baths in London, university exams results, Thames Conservators report, Pure Literature Society libraries, Stowmarket explosion verdict, Republican programme aims, international peace movement funding, London School Board finances and transfers, and debates on subsidising schools under the 1870 act.
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Archer
Southampton
Norfolk
Blackfriarsbridge
Greenwich
Listowel
Kerry
Peccard
Lancashire
Chelsea
Rotherhithe
London University
Royal College of Surgeons
The
Thames
Eton
Reading
Windsor
Kingston-upon-Thames
Pure Literature Society
International Peace Movement
Old Peace Society
Workmen’s Peace Society
Workmen’s Peace Association
England
Richard
London Schoor Board
Thomas Tilson
Smithies
Lucraft
Tabrum
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Grimes and Casualties
Thomas Nunneley
Leicester
Jie
High Cross
Nunneley
Harborough
Leices’ear
Stowmarket
Merriman
Poland
London
Republican Equity
Republican Areopagus
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