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THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW for April. Con.
tents:
Comment on Christmas, by Matthew Arnold
Russia and the Afghan Frontier by Major
General Sir Frederic Goldsmith K c. S. L
The State verSUS The Man. l. A Criticism of
Mr. Spencer, by Emile de Laveleye. 2. A Re-
joinder, by Herbert Spencer.
Shakespeares Portraiture of Women by Pro-
lessor Edward Dowden.
The Present Low Prices and their Causes nv
William Fowler, NJ P
On Style in Literature, by Robert Louis
Stevenson.
England and the oudan. l. By Sir John
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Contemporary Life and Thought in Greece,
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Sense. Contents:
Indian Corn and the Indian, by E. Lewis
Sturtenant
On the Evolution of the Vertebrate, Progress
slve and Retrogressive, by E. D. Cope
On the Larval Forms of Spirorbis Borealis,
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Pennsylvania before and after the Elevation
OF the Appalachian Mountains a Study in Dy-
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Life and Nature in Southern Labrador by A.
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Why certain kinds of Timber prevail in cer-
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On the Evolution of the Vertebrate Progress
sive and Retrogressive. Continued
Progress of North American Ihvertebrate
Pal@ontology for 1884, by ] Maroon.
The Clam Worm, by S. Lockwood
Life and Nature in Southern Labrador. (Con.
tinued
Recent Literature, General Notes, etc.
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April 25th,
Whatsoever knowledge or work does
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Therefore the Great Master himself has
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