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LITERATURE

... LITERATURE BOOKS, PRINTS, M USICi e,0o, For review, are requested to be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red Lion Court, Fleet-street, London, addressed To the, ditor pf tbe Exeter F17in g Pos4-these vwill be dudly.forwar ed, and receive ani early notice. :labkiaoooi~spdislotit'ba Magazine,- Noveinber. Edinburgbi: ,BlaTkw6oad.and Sois, ?? George - street. The flrst contribution is a continuation ...

Literature

... 'WeratUrc. ?? 1(t, :5 itsi .l'rssscples anid A4dmasnisslraton or).th 311w Mc vqntsile Law' of Great Britain compared with thse Codes and Ic of Commeerce of all 11e,ruantile Countries. By Leone Loci. Vel. J. -lin. Bonning & Co., rind Simphin, Mlarshrall, and Co., London. This is the commencement of a highly-important work,lthe valuse of which is to be estimated from mnore then one point of ...

Illustrations of Local History

... Ol~u~it~fltltlt.ti s f m laud tatil.ttI (Previous to restmitlig a silspided series, the writer thinks it pro- per to soy tilous tIttICiI respectilig its evident liability to tittrruptioi. in the ?? plcc, lie is rctely present in the localities tie Attempts to illustrattc, adt so at intervals mitost gather ns tie cait the necessary Ittaterials i antl, econlty, his avocation is ol tihat jealous ...

Illustrations of Local History

... lit fravat 'Vilortl. NO. XX. TIIE MAID OF BIRITTANY. [CONTINUED.3 ?? one rcspect, ?? entry already quoted is re- jistirkable, ilstisucli hasit 6hows clst Eleanor -i8) ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITERARY VARETIES. STORY OF , LONDON IfACIeNxY COACIIMAN,-IV'e often laughed and said that I could say what perhaps nobody, or almost nobody in England can say nOw, that I'd been driven by a king. ?? grow to be n king afterward, George ?? One night, you see, sir, r was called olf the stand, and told to take up at ?? Coffee-house, in Cockspur-street, I was la Id theo, and whlenl I pulled up at ...

Poetry

... TEI1 EIIGIIWAY OF LIFE.-*Bly W. It. CASSEL5. TEIE highlway of this world is set withl thorns, O'er whihol poor pilgrrims still must journey on; 'Tlere are whlo walkg it shod with iron senso, 'f hat crushes oppiosition like a vice, And puts asidc the ready points liske twvigs rrees'd backward in thle woodlands by a child. f'bere are wbho Seem busybd upwvard by some power Above the level of ...

EXETER LITERARY SOCIETY

... On Friday last at the Athenmum, J. Jerwood, Esq., M.A., delivered a leture on The Utility of Mathematical Knowledge, with a sketch of a mode of acquiring it. R. .Dymond, junr., Eeq., in the chair. The lecturer remarked he bad no intention to depreciate any other branches of knowledge in the obeervations be intended to make respecting mathematics. There were the classics and many other ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... REAL GrNTILr TY-BMr.Winston was a Whig of the old school with that heriditary touch of aristocracy in his nature which gives to the rmost careless actions an unniistakeable air 0l1 good breeding. Everything within lils house indicated the habits of a gentleman. There snere no affectations of any kind, no preten- siols to superiority over neighbours, no backbitings or wviisper- ings, jars, or ...

GREAT EXHIBITION

... GIR E.AT EXHToI BI TION . BANQUET Al' YORIL It will be remembered that not very long ago Sits Lord Mayor of London entertained at a splendid banquet Itis royal highness the Prince Consort and the mayors and chief magis- trates of tbe principal towns in the kingdom, to stimulate, by tile friendly intercourse of a dinner and by verbal encourage- mont, the necompltshmettt of the great project ...

LITERATURE

... BOOKS, PRINTS, MUSIC, &c., For review, are requested to be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red Lion Court, Fleet-street, London, addressed To the Editor of the Exeter Flying Post,-these will be duly forwarded, and receive an early notice. Chambers's Edinburgh Joaurnal,-Part 82. Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers. This part is equal, if not superior, to any which have preceded it. The papers are full ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITERARY VARIETIES, THE CONDITION OP THlE PEOPLE-[Ono of our, greatest and most enlightened rmanufacturers gives the following interesting account of the condition of the labouring classes.]-' Brighter days have at last dawnied upon us, holding out thle realisation to the fullest extent of those predictions which the I'dreamers' of a free-trade policy ever so strenuously insisted upon, ivhen ...

POETRY

... WHAT THE BUTTERFLIES ARE. [FrROM THE spANI1sH OF CrOctwisco. SatuiN from a stem whereon there bent A rose, now pale with nge, another grew, Fresh, beautiful, and innocent, Scarce opening yet her buds to tas1e the dew: And while this graceful child the mother eyed With anxions fondness ansI maternal pride, The daughter wbisper'd, AIs it true, Tell me, dear mother, shell I wee Those short.lived ...