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THE

NINETEENTH

CENTURY

14

A MONTHLY REVIEW

EDITED BY JAMES KNOWLES

VOL. IX.

JANUARY-JUNE 1881

LONDON

C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE

Jan-12-June 11

18811

HAR ARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

7955

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(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved)

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FRENCH VERSE IN ENGLISH. By William M. Hardinge

RELIGIOUS FAIRS IN INDIA.

WEST-END IMPROVEMENTS. By the Hon. Maude Stanley

CARLYLE'S LECTURES ON THE PERIODS OF EUROPEAN CULTURE.

Transcribed by Professor Edward Dowden.

THE NEW IRISH LAND BILL. By the Duke of Argyll
A CIVILIAN'S ANSWER TO SIR GARNET WOLSELEY.

A REVISER ON THE NEW REVISION. By the Rev. G. Vance Smith .
WHAT IS A POUND? By Henry R. Grenfell ».
ERNEST RENAN. By Frederic W. H. Myers
PAWNBROKING ABROAD AND AT HOME. By the Rev. W. Walter

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THERE have been several periods in the history of Europe when all thinking men have felt that remarkable events could not long be postponed. Even within the last hundred years the French Revolution and the great Continental movements of 1848 were preceded by changes which betokened a serious shock to existing institutions. Careful observers predicted the approach of both the one and the other, though neither took precisely the anticipated shape. But never, perhaps, has the certainty of approaching trouble, social and political, been more manifest than it is to-day.' The issues are more complicated than ever before, and that they can be settled without grave disturbance is scarcely credible. Of the political dangers by which Europe is threatened we hear daily. They are serious enough. With the whole Eastern Question reopened in a most dangerous shape with Russian Panslavism and German ambition to reconcilewith Italian aspirations and French yearning for the lost provinces to gratify all the nations being armed for war as they never were

Since this was written, Baron Hübner has delivered his remarkable speech in the Austrian Delegations. From his ultra-Conservative point of view, he regards all Republican or Democratic ideas as proceeding direct from the Author of Evil, and proposes an immediate renewal of the Three Emperor League, or Holy Alliance, to stem the flood of revolution ere it is too late. Has not the time almost gone by for this combination of Governments against peoples?

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