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THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW

VOLUME XLIII. JANUARY-JUNE, 1883

ISBISTER AND COMPANY

LIMITED

56, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON

1883

   Ballantyne Press

   BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH
   CHANDOS STREET, LONDON




CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLIII.

   JANUARY, 1883.

                                                                    PAGE

   The Americans. By Herbert Spencer                                   1

   University Elections. By Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L.                 16

   Hamlet: A New Reading. By Franklin Leifchild                       31

   Panislamism and the Caliphate                                      57

   The Bollandists. By the Rev. G. T. Stokes                          69

   England, France, and Madagascar. By the Rev. James Sibree          85

   The Religious Future of the World. I. By W. S. Lilly              100

   Syrian Colonization. B