... illustrated. The first two volumes of the new edition of Mr. Ruskin's 'Modern Painteis will be ready almostI immediately. Slavery in West Central Alfrica is the title of an article which Major Mockler-Ferrvman contri- butes to the July number of Macmillan's ...

... of the American civil war. As his tour embraced a visit to Washington and the South, at a period when the agitation on the slavery question was already threatening to culminate in a crisis, the marrative of so keen an observer can hardly fail to shed light ...

... grand in the history of civilisa- tion:- Where the spoiler's foot bath trod, Robber, cursed of man and God, In the land of slavery Ensglaod 's fla/t floats gallantly. (1! !) Down, then, with the hated rag, Trample on the robber's flag; In the dust it's ...

... with (iirct 1'.it un by wlhich lheir frecdom, is guaralNted. Are, to the. nhlier of 9o0no- thing like ten thousand, hc pt in slavery bv the ]ra- 'iiain Government a series ot' eifnls of leho Briuleb ijegatiou froin Sir tamnes Hadls-on time to Mr. Christie's ...

... loved the epic page Forth glassing strong-the fetter-cleaving fight, When nationis, starting in their generous rage, Clove slavery down, in stern indignant might; Like stars illuniniing tile brow of night To me those leroes were of olden time- To truest ...

... tyrannical t Iuurts, which fonrbade people ti think l out their thoughts - enslaved to patnn% one of the worst kinlds of r slavery. T'iat slate of things, however, happilyv no I lnger existed. Nc'wadays our publishers eewar;(ded authors Nvith remarkable ...

... we proclaim- I Surrender? No-but rally, a Maintain their glorious fame. To thaose who would us fetter r With chains of slavery e We ?? would be better, c We shall remain still free. Oh, poor, benighted Britain, With thee we've fought and bled, We've ...

... farled I Ilowv long shiall tyrants dreiieli the earth wvith gore ?, Still muist tily chiedcild ' bloed hedew the aorlid, ,Andl slavery'sshrick resound fror shore to shorc? Yet, tioglih the clouds of wrath are closing o'er The ashes of a land that once Nvas ...

... Carlyle, t l which you criticise, that no man hated tyranny t more than he, allow me to say that Carlyle did E not regard slavery as tyranny. He often said that he desired nothing for the negro that he would not like for himself, and that every man would ...

... of the bonnie Boyne, when they are reddened witb our hearts beat blood. This is the question of the book noW before ?? and Slavery, or William and Freedom, which 9-and Mr. Johnston, by the graphic way in which he de- picts the wrox'gs and cruelties indicted ...

... is simplicity itself. Disraeli, among his many attacks upon Peel, pictured the then Prime Minister as one whose hatred of slavery extended to every place except the benches behind hiM, There the gang is still assembled, and there the thong of the whip ...

... wanted them for the coming insurrection. The story looks incredible enough. Tirat a mulatto should go to the captain of a pro-slavery ship of war to buy arms for the Negroes to use against their masters is not highly probable. Bnt the story, however ficti- ...