Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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. By the Rev. W. Wright, D.D 122 The Conservative Dilemma. By Henry Dunckley 141 FEBRUARY, 1883. Contemporary Life and Thought in France. By Gabriel Monod 157 Gambetta. By A German 179 The Art of Rossetti. By Harry Quilter 190 The Religious Future of the World. II. By W. S. Lilly 204 The "Silver Streak" and the Channel Tunnel. By Professor Boyd Dawkins 240 The Prospect of Reform. By Arthur Arnold, M.P. 250 Ancient International Law. By Professor Brougham Leech 260 A Russian Prison. By Henry Lansdell, D.D. 275 Canonical Obedience. By the Rev. Edwin Hatch 289 Democratic Toryism. By Arthur B. Forwood 294 MARCH, 1883. County Government. By the Rt. Hon. Sir R. A. Cross, G.C.B., M.P. 305 Léon Gambetta: A Positivist Discourse. By Frederic Harrison 311 Discharged Prisoners: How to Aid Them. By C. E. Howard Vincent, Director of Criminal Investigations 325 Miss Burney's Own Story. By Mary Elizabeth Christie 332 The Highland Crofters. By John Rae 357 Local Self-Government in India: The New Departure. By Sir Richard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.I. 373 Siena. By Samuel James Capper 383 The Limits of Science. By the Rev. George Edmundson 404 Land Tenure and Taxation in Egypt. By Henry C. Kay 411 The Enchanted Lake: An Episode from the Mahábhárata. By Edwin Arnold, C.S.I. 428