THE CONTEMPORARY VOLUME XXXVII. JANUARY-JUNE, 1880 Anchora Spei STRAHAN AND COMPANY LIMITED 34 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXVII. England in the Eighteenth Century. By Karl Hillebrand Landlords and Land Laws. By Professor John Stuart Blackie Herbert Spencer on the Data of Ethics. By Professor Calderwood The Letters of Charles Dickens. By Matthew Browne . The Character and Writings of Cyrus the Great, in Connection with a Recent Dis- 86 99 167 Experimental Legislation and the Drink Traffic. By Professor W. Stanley Jevons . 177 Agricultural Prospects in England, Canada, and the United States. By Francis Peek -The New Fiction. By Henry Holbeach The First Murder and the Founding of the First City. By François Lenormant The Geography of Living Creatures. By Professor St. George Mivart. Some Forgotten Aspects of the Irish Question. By the Rev. Malcolm Maccoll Usury. By the Bishop of Manchester, and John Ruskin, D.C.L. . Contemporary Life and Thought in Turkey. By an Eastern Statesman Beaureaucracy and its Operation in Germany and Austria-Hungary. By Professor von Schulte The Vernacular Press in India. By Roper Lethbridge Hellenic and Christian Views of Beauty. By the Rev. R. St. John Tyrwhitt Ministerial Misstatements on the Afghan Question. By the Duke of Argyll |