THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW

VOLUME XLIII. JANUARY-JUNE, 1883

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLIII.

JANUARY, 1883.
PAGE
The Americans. By Herbert Spencer[1]
University Elections. By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L.[16]
Hamlet: A New Reading. By Franklin Leifchild[31]
Panislamism and the Caliphate[57]
The Bollandists. By the Rev. G. T. Stokes[69]
England, France, and Madagascar. By the Rev. James Sibree[85]
The Religious Future of the World. I. By W. S. Lilly[100]
Syrian Colonization. By the Rev. W. Wright, D.D[122]
The Conservative Dilemma. By Henry Dunckley[141]
FEBRUARY, 1883.
Contemporary Life and Thought in France. By Gabriel Monod157
Gambetta. By A German179
The Art of Rossetti. By Harry Quilter190
The Religious Future of the World. II. By W. S. Lilly204
The "Silver Streak" and the Channel Tunnel. By Professor Boyd Dawkins240
The Prospect of Reform. By Arthur Arnold, M.P.250
Ancient International Law. By Professor Brougham Leech260
A Russian Prison. By Henry Lansdell, D.D.275
Canonical Obedience. By the Rev. Edwin Hatch289
Democratic Toryism. By Arthur B. Forwood294
MARCH, 1883.
County Government. By the Rt. Hon. Sir R. A. Cross, G.C.B., M.P.305
Léon Gambetta: A Positivist Discourse. By Frederic Harrison311
Discharged Prisoners: How to Aid Them. By C. E. Howard Vincent, Director of Criminal Investigations325
Miss Burney's Own Story. By Mary Elizabeth Christie332
The Highland Crofters. By John Rae357
Local Self-Government in India: The New Departure. By Sir Richard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.I.373
Siena. By Samuel James Capper383
The Limits of Science. By the Rev. George Edmundson404
Land Tenure and Taxation in Egypt. By Henry C. Kay411
The Enchanted Lake: An Episode from the Mahábhárata. By Edwin Arnold, C.S.I.428
The Municipal Organization of Paris. By Yves Guyot, Member of the Municipal Council of Paris439
APRIL, 1883.
The English Military Power, and the Egyptian Campaign of 1882. By A German Field-Officer457
M. Gambetta: Positivism and Christianity. By R. W. Dale, M.A.476
The Anti-Vivisectionist Agitation:
1. By Dr. E. De Cyon498
2. By R. H. Hutton510
The Gospel According to Rembrandt. By Richard Heath517
Conseils de Prud'hommes. By W. H. S. Aubrey538
The Manchester Ship Canal. By Major-General Hamley549
The Progress of Socialism. By Emile de Laveleye561
Irish Murder-Societies. By Richard Pigott583
Contemporary Life and Thought: Italian Politics. By Professor Villari592
MAY, 1883.
Mrs. Carlyle. By Mrs. Oliphant609
The Business of the House o£ Commons. By the Right Ho. W. E. Baxter, M.P.629
The Oxford Movement of 1833. By William Palmer636
Radiation. By Professor Tyndall660
Cairo: The Old in the New. I. By Dr. Georg Ebers674
Responsibilities of Unbelief. By Vernon Lee685
Fiji. By the Hon Sir Arthur H. Gordon, G.C.M.G.711
John Richard Green. By the Rev. H. R. Haweis, M A.732
Fenianism. By F. H. O'Donnell, M.P.747
JUNE, 1883.
The Congo Neutralized. By Emile de Laveleye767
Agnostic Morality. By Frances Power Cobbe783
Native Indian Judges: Mr. Ilbert's Bill. By the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Hobhouse, K.C.S.I.795
The Philosophy of the Beautiful. By Professor John Stuart Blackie812
Nature and Thought. By G. J. Romanes, F.R.S.831
Cairo: The Old in the New. II. By Dr. Georg Ebers842
De Mortuis. By C. F. Gordon Cumming858
Wanted, an Elisha. By H. D. Traill, D.C.L.870
Two Aspects of Shakspeare's Art. By T. Hall Came883
Insanity, Suicide and Civilization. By M. G. Mulhall901
The New Egyptian Constitution. By Sheldon Amos909

THE AMERICANS:

A CONVERSATION AND A SPEECH, WITH AN ADDITION.