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No. CCCXCI. MAY, 1848. Vol. LXIII.
| The Caxtons. Part II. | 525 |
| Education in Wales | 540 |
| The Silver Cross | 564 |
| Heigh-ho! | 572 |
| Republican Paris—(March, April, 1848,) | 573 |
| The Spaniard in Sicily | 589 |
| Crimes and Remarkable Trials in Scotland. Kidnapping—Peter | |
| Williamson's Case | 607 |
| The Repealer's Wish Granted | 627 |
| The Last Walk. By B. Simmons | 629 |
| Man is a Featherless Biped | 631 |
| The Revolutions in Europe | 638 |
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When I had reached the age oftwelve, I had got to the head of thepreparatory school to which I hadbeen sent. And having thus exhaustedall the oxygen of learning in thatlittle receiver, my parents lookedout for a wider range for my inspirations.During the last two years inwhich I had been at school, my love forstudy had returned; but it was avigorous, wakeful, undreamy love, stimulatedby competition, and animatedby the practical desire to excel.
My father no longer sought to curbmy intellectual aspirings. He had toogreat a reverence for scholarship notto wish me to become a scholar if