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NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... quantities, as a fact that no ratiocination could argue away. The question then was, not whether slavery in the abstract was an. evil, but how a concrete system of slavery could best be brought into line with modern civilisation. Their own answer was much on the- ...

SARAH GRAND'S NEW NOVEL.*

... -satisfaction until the final page. The Contagious Diseases Acts, vivisection, the prostitution of marriage. and the -slavery of wedded women are all handled in turn, often by means of long and prosy speeches from the woman of genius. Bethis husband ...

STONEWALL JACKSHON.*

... Jackson offered his sword to his native l State. Colonel Henderson ivill not admit that is it was for the maintenance of slavery that he - fought, or, indeed, ?? this was the motive e o1 that led the Confederate States to take up a arms. In the South ...

PRINCESS BEATRICE'S BOOK.*

... dagger. 5 After his captbrie Count GermeJ with the Msurvivors of bi party, was taken to Tunis, a where the altorsa&i're of slavery er a heavy t ransom was put befre him. Owing to his com- maundig stature nand noble presence be was at 5 once set down a- ...

LITERATURE

... in place of the weak Con- federation. He has explained by what radical change in economic conditions the institution ;of slavery was fastened en the South at the Ltime that it was disappearing in the North, and how the country was divided into two sections ...

THE THEATRES

... Couple from Cnba. Both pieces were warmly received by a large audience. GRAND- THE SLAVE GIRL. | Some of the cruelties of slavery are depicted | with considerable realism in The Slave Girl, whicl was performed last night in the (randJ: Theatre. The piece ...

THE APRIL MAGAZINES

... GeeGotz Von `erlicbingoo, &r-. In The'C Anre (London pubhishers, Gay a3 Bird) a writer is severe on what he calls the New Slavery il! the United States, the syatern of blacklisting adopted Iy the Anisriean railway companies of, all who takce'art in ...

THE MARCH MAGAZINES

... is afforded by H. L. Nelson, and the world is a new one for English readers. M~r H. My. Stanley contributes a paper about slavery and the slave trade in Africa, and in The Editor's Study and The Editorhs Drawer there is much agreeable trifling. ...

LITERATURE

... later was engagted to write regularly for the Ati-'Slavery 8' aiard of New York. The times were row becoming grave, and he wrote week by v-ck vigorous poems and articles bearing on tie -reat slavery question. This was the era of iiglow and Wilbur, and ...

LITERATURE

... chapter, which is headed C Republic, the period between 1789 and 1820 is passed under review, and the next, De- mocracy and Slavery, is an introduction to the very able examination into the causes which led to rupture end civil war. There occurs in it au ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... production in 1869, when also the com- poser affixed to the score some words by a Rus- Sian poet, beginning Man is born to slavery, supposed to be the dying speech of Melohise- dek. The piece is sombre, and not at all likely to ba so popular as some of ...

IS THE LITERATURE OF SELFANALYSIS ON THE DECLINE?

... not tortured by communing en the weary Fweight of the world, helps him to sleep, and |so aids him to begin another day of slavery. The literature of self-analysis may be on the decline, but it is not dead. The popularity of Thrums and Dramtochty points ...