VI 



NATURE 



\_May I, 1879 



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o" L.>wr.e's." Chapters XXXVIIL— XL. 

 3. — " The Ch-arity Organisation Society." 

 4. — *' Burns's Unpublished Common-place Bjok." By William Jack. No. 



in. 



5. — "Sketches from Eastern Sicily." By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L., 



LL.L). IV. — Inner Syracuse. 

 6. — "The Chances of English Opera." By Francis Hueffer. 

 7. — " Manz'ni's Hymn for Whitsunday." By the Dean of Westminster. 

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 $. — " J&nnina — Greek or Turkish ? " By George A. Macmillan. 



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