THE

NINE TEENTH
C E N T U R Y

A MONTHLY REVIEW

EDITED BY JAMES KNOWLES

WOL. XV.

JANUARY-JUNE 1884

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCE, & Co., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE

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RELIGION: A RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT. By Herbert Spencer

THE PRETENSIONS OF M. DE LESSEPs. By C. Magniac

STATUES AND MONUMENTS OF LONDON. By G. Shaw Lefevre

LORD MELBOURNE : a Sketch. By Earl Cowper

A TREATISE ON LOVE. By Algernon Sidney

UNGRATEFUL TRELAND. By Sir C. Gavan Duffy

FLOODs. By the Earl of Camperdown © e e

DAILY LIFE IN A MEDIAEVAL MONASTERY. By the Rev. Dr. Jessopp

THE NEW BRIBERY AcT AND THE York ELECTION. By E. T. Wil-

kinson . o o o o o •

OUR GROWING AUSTRALIAN EMPIRE. By Sir Henry Parkes

HOMES OF THE POOR. By Sir Richard Assheton Cross

A NEW VIEW OF MORMONISM. By James W. Barclay

ON THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE. By Cardinal Newman) e

THE HOUSE OF LORDS. (1.) By the Earl of Dunraven. (2.) By

T. E. Kebbel g g e o o e

THE STATE AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. By Professor Hurley.

A WALK TO COOM assie. By Godfrey Y. Lagden * ©

THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE POOR. By the Rev. Samuel A. Barnett

‘CRAMMING” IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLs. By Lord Norton

INDIA, HER WHEAT AND HER RAILWAYs. By William Fowler

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. By Robert H. Hayward . o

AN ECCLESIASTICAL OLIVE BRANCH. By A. J. B. Beresford-Hope .

THE GERM-THEORY OF ZYMOTIC DISEASEs. By Dr. W. B. Carpenter

CHRISTIAN AGNOSTICISM. By the Rev. Canon Curteis

ON RAINBOWs. By Professor Tyndall

A SANITARY LAWS ENFORCEMENT SOCIETY . ©

OUR PROTECTORATE IN EGYPT. By Edward Dicey .

PEASANTS' HOMES IN ARCADY. By the Rev. Dr. Jessopp

PLATFoRM Woy EN. By Miss Lonsdale o • o

OPENING NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ON SUNDAY. By the Earl of Dun-

7°O/U6??, . . o o e e ©

THE BRUTES ON THEIR MASTER. By H. D. Traill e

SHIP INSURANCES AND LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA. By Sir Thomas Drassey

MY SCHOOL-DAYS FROM 1830 TO 1840. By the Dean of Westminster

THE EXILE IN SIBERIA. By Prince Krapotkine

THE GHOST OF RELIGION. By Frederic Harrison .