21 JANUARY 1871, page 15

A Cast For A Crown.* Oh ! For The Days

when we were young enough to thoroughly enjoy a story made up of dwarfs, alchemists, lovely golden-haired ladies, and equally lovely, but dark-minded ladies with black tresses ;......

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MR. BALDWIN BROWN ON THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY.% THESE essays are full of power of a very broad and refined kind. They seem to us, indeed, to lose not a little of their force when......