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THE LITERARY WEEK 339 ' THE POETRY OF SILENCE 251 Contrasts *yj Impressions—XXIIL Our Uream 25i REVIEWS. " John Inglesant" 251 MoreLettersof CharlesDarwin; A Recordof Ills Work In ftSeriesof hitherto ParisLetter 244 UnpublishedLetters 143 Two Biographiesof WilliamBedell,BishopofKilmorc 344 DRAMA: ConcerningChildren 245 Glamourof Melodrama. K. K. Oluimbers 255 The Minor Moralist 24« The Journal of ;iTonr in theHighlandsandWesternI-l.m.Uof Scotlandin JNOO.. 24G AST: The Tioainn of the Qardcn 247 Dutchmenanda Recluse. C. L. H. 2'G SHORTNOTICES- SCIENCE: Saleeby 23r LiberalJndaisin—As WeAreandasWeMayMe—TheHistoryof Lurmden'9 The Evidencefor Telepathy. C. W. Horse-Oau Telepathy ExplainV Rranlts of Psychical-Research— Colloquiesof CommonPeople • .. .. .. .. 217 CORRESPONDENCE: Nietzsche 251 Two Words *5< PlCTIOK : Wonted— " " The SupremeQuestion K9 Lady Rose'sDaughter—In Piccadilly—TheJulascoBrig .. !49 WEEKLY COMPETITION: Noteson theWeek'sNovels .. 260 Originalopeningparagraphof an unwrittenNove! SCO CHARLOTTE MARY YOXOE Her Life and Letters. By Christabel Coleridge. The Literary Week. A sympathetic record of a simple, successful, and quiet " " life. I have endeavoured," says Miss Coleridge, to SEVERAL weighty books have been published daring the share with others my impressions, my knowledge, of week, many of them in two volumes. Charlotte Youge's Charlotte Yonge ... In one way the task has been biography has, we are glad to see, been compressed into easy, for so consistent, so harmonious a life has surely one volume. Although politics are scarcely referred to in been lived." The volume " " never been described, and rarely Mr. Molloy's The Sailor King he has taken two volumes opens with an autobiography which runs to one hundred to tell the story of the seven years' reign of William IV. and twenty pages, and describes with some detail the Two volumes were also necessary for the late Robert formative influences of the writer's early surroundings and Adamson's "The Development of Modern Philosophy: friends. Towards