Henry Taylor's Statesman.--The working of negro apprenticeship in 1838.--Bill for the suspension of the Jamaica constitution, 1839.--Tales by the author of Headlong Hall.--The Wakefield theory of colonization.--South Australia in 1841.--Expedition to the Niger in 1841. Civilization of Africa.--Dickens's American notes.--Tennyson's poems.--Hartley Coleridge.--English hexameters.--Twelfth night at the Olympic Theatre in 1865.--The merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales's theatre in 1875.--On the authorship of the plays attributed to Shakespeare.--On a question concerning a supposed specimen of Shakespeare's handwriting.--The duty of advocates in criminal trials.--A question concerning books published on commission.--On some oversights in recent histories.--Teaching to read