ut the
inconvenience. I occasionally meet them in railway carriages, chiefly (I
do not write it disrespectfully) third class. I have met with them in
considerable numbers in our seaport towns, and then I miss them and
search for them in vain. Where are they? I believe I am not far wrong
in conjecturing that they are gone where there are

"Larger constellations burning,
Mellow moons, and happy skies;"

that they stimulate the intellect or soothe the leisure of muscular
gold-diggers at Ballarat; that pastoral New Zealanders read them with
delight; that they adorn the drawing-rooms of distant Timbuctoo. Let me
say a word for the authors of these works. Are they not true
philanthropists? Not one book in a hundred pays, yet in what countless
succession do they appear!

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London: Petter and Galpin, Belle Sauvage Printing Works, E.C.

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

_Just published_, _price_ 3_s._ 6_d._, _bound in cloth_, _Second
Edition_, _Revised and Enlarged_,

THE LONDON PULPIT,

BY
JAMES EWING RITCHIE.

Contents: The Religious Denominations of London--Sketches of the Rev. J.
M. Bellew--Dale--Liddell--Maurice--Melville--Villiers--Baldwin
Brown--Binney--Dr. Campbell--Lynch--Morris--Martin--Brock--Howard
Hinton--Sheridan Knowles--Baptist Noel--Spurgeon--Dr. Cumming--Dr. James
Hamilton--W. Forster--H. Ierson--Cardinal Wiseman--Miall--Dr. Wolf, &c.
&c.

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"The subject is an interesting one, and it is treated with very
considerable ability. Mr. Ritchie has the valuable art of saying many
things in few words; he is never diffuse, never dull, and succeeds in
being graphic without becoming flippant. Occasionally his strength of
thought and style borders rather too closely on coarseness; but this
fault of vigorous natures is counterbalanced by compensatory merits--by
an utter absence of cant, a manly grasp of thought, and a wise and genial
human-heartedness. The book is a sincere book; the writer says what he
means, and means what he says. In these half-earnest days it is a
comfort to meet with any one who has 'the courage of his opinions,'
especially on such a subject as the 'London Pulpi