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Identifier: harpersweeklyv8bonn (find matches)
Title: Harper's weekly
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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.died at Turin in April. Charles Eeades Hard Cash is how issued com-plete by the Harpers. Mr. Dickens, who is nowengaged upon his new story, declares that it is thomaster-piece of the author; and those who haveread it as it has appeared from week to week areaware that to the usual attractions of his style thiswork has a peculiar value as a vivid picture of thoworking of the lunatic system in England; doing,in fact, for the Lunatic Asylums the service thathis Never too Late to Mend did for the Peniten-tiary eystem. It is a tale of a great variety of in-terest, and of a much broader, firmer grasp than . (Sever & Francis. Cnm-r of .Seven little I-Vople andr ago, has written , which, following Chai calls Dream ( most perfectly printed and completed little booksof the year. At first glance tho book seems to ad-dress itself to children: but it is really no childsbook; it is too full and complex. It has something 3 kind. The book is made ■■(■ug a vein of romance running l we are in
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humor like Dickei site, delicate humor. The tion of his ta>h\ wiih a great drgn e most comprehensive i of the Li-hops letter are un paringly exposed. Thespecial force of Professor Drislers pamphlet is thatit meets the Li-la.p up .n his own ground. It fol- exegesis, and shows thHebrew slavery may 1more excuse for Africa rof tbe Patriarchs forth.So of the New Testarean;- thing it proves thatslaved; it certainly does not legitimate the Africanslave-trade. Unquestionably there has been slav-ery in society before ours; and undeniably, if thefact is evidence of the divine approval, it is op-proved. But then crime of every kind has alwaysabounded; and this fact is as equally conclusive ofthe divine approval of crime. Moreover every na-tion as it emerges from barbarism into a higher civ- lan the polygamylent: if it proves HUMORS OF THE DAT.

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