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FOR THE

WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1905.

Ilan WEEK 913

TOPICS- ' The Horne-Rule Scare 916

• ' Playing with Fire " 917 The Situation in Russia 918 ' German Imperial Finance .... . . . 919 Is there a Crisis ? 920 " The Unit of Strife " 921

Oxford and Cambridge 922

The Village Thatcher 923

BETTERS.TO THE EDITOR—

The Sultan and the Powers 924 The National Service League 925 Lord Rosebery and Mr. Chamber- lain 925 A Plea for Fiscal Enlightenment 925 Fiscal Deductions 926 Protection and Employment 926 The 'Alabama' 927 The Preservation of Swiss Scenery 928 A Curious Dream 928 Gowbarrow Fell and the National Trust..... ....... . ............... 928

Party Government 928 POETRY— A Song of Somerset 929 BOOKS— Brookfield and his Friends..— 929

A New Apology for Christianity 930

An Australian in England 931

Novels 932

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