II. THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE: WILLIAM WILBER-

-FORCE

III. THE AMELIORATION OF THE CRIMINAL CODE: SIR SAMUEL

IV. POPULAR EDUCATION: LORD BROUGHAM

V. CHEAP LITERATURE: CONSTABLE, CHAMBERS, KNIGHT,

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VII. THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS: RICHARD COBDEN,

JOHN BRIGHT, C. P. VILLIERS.

VIII. THE REPEAL OF THE FISCAL RESTRICTIONS ON LITERATURE
AND THE PRESS: T. MILNER GIBSON AND OTHERS.

IX. THE INTRODUCTION OF GAS: MURDOCH, WINSOR, CLEGG,

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X. THE STEAM ENGINE, AND ITS APPLICATION TO LOCOMOTION

BY LAND AND WATER: WATT, STEPHENSON, FULTON,

BELL.

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XI. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH: COOKE, WHEATSTONE, AND

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national education and chapters, the biographic introduced, and has be cases where the history ( interesting and more in connected with it.

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October, 1881.