LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 



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Xiinil, din,;/: Mine.Dudevant(<5e Dupin). 



itcribierus, Marti nit* Swift, Pope, and Arbuth- 



not. 



>'// irli-ij John Skelton. 



X//VA. .Vf(//. T. C. Haliburtou. 



x/ /,// in I. S. Kartcheffsky. 



strt-iion, Ih xiia Sarah Smith. 



Sijntii.1 , l>i- Wm. Combe. 



Titi-iiinh, Tiiiinlliii J. G. Holland. 



Titm<ir*li, Mir/nit/ Ainjflo. .W. M. Thackeray. 



'I'n; i i, /. Murk Samuel L. Clemens. 



Tijtler, Surah Miss H. Keddie. 



{' iii-1i- Hi inns Joel Chandler Harris. 



Urban, Sijli-itini* Editor of The Gent/rimm'* 



Magazine. 



rut-mi.*. I in/or Thomas Hughes. 



I'ltlfaire Francois Marie Arouet. 



ll'aril. Art i in us Chas. F. Browne. 



It'ii rili H. Flori ,,,, Mrs. G. James. 



Wetherell, Elizabeth Susan Warner. 



n'lufi /, Juliii ^fi-iniye Mrs. H. E. A'. Stannard. 



'<<n, n-I Capt. R. J. Morrison, R. N. 



FIRST NEWSPAPERS. 



In ancient Rome an official gazette, called 

 Dturnn, was issued under the manage- 

 ment and authority of the government, and 

 posted up daily in some prominent place in 

 the city. 



In Venice a paper of public intelligence, 



called Gazetta, was published in 1620 



In England the first weekly newspaper 



\vas published by Nathaniel Butler in 1622 



In England the first daily newspaper in 1709 



In France the first weekly newspaper was 



published in 16:51 



In France the first daily in 1777 



In America, at Boston, a newspaper was 



published in 1690 



In Ireland the first newspaper, called 



Pue's Occurrences, appeared in 1700 



In Ireland the oldest Dublin newspaper, 



The Freeman's Journal, in 1755 



In Germany the first newspaper was pub- 

 lished in 1715 



In Holland the first newspaper was pub- 

 lished in 1732 



In Turkey the first newspaper was pub- 

 lished in 1795 



In Australia the first newspaper was pub- 

 lished in 1803 



THE FORTY IMMORTALS OF THE FRENCH ACAOEMY. 



\Var Klected. 



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