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THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE for DECEMBER contains the following articles:—­1.  An Evening with Voltaire, by Mr. R.N.  Neville; 2.  The New Cratylus; 3.  Old Ballads from the Bright Collection; 4.  The Abbe de Saint-Pierre; 5 Norman Crosses (with Engravings); 6.  Duchess of Queensberry and Gay; 7.  Dryden and Flecknoe; 8.  Legends of the Monastic Orders; 9.  T. Lodge and his Works; 10.  Birth of the Old Pretender; 11.  History of Winchelsea (with Engravings); 12.  Autobiography of Mr. Britton; 13.  The recent Papal Bull historically considered:  with Notes of the Month.  Review of New Publications, Literary and Antiquarian Intelligence, Historical Chronicle, and OBITUARY, including Memoirs of Lord Rancliffe, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Leigh, Chief Justice Doherty, Rev. Dr. Thackeray, John Jardine, Esq., Thomas Hodgson, Esq., F.S.A., Newcastle, &c., &c.  Price 2s. 6d.

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WESTMINSTER AND DR. WISEMAN; or, FACTS v. FICTION.  By WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, Esq., M.P., Q.C.  Reprinted from The Times, with an Advertisement on the subject of the WESTMINSTER SPIRITUAL AID FUND, and especially on the Duty and Justice of applying the Revenues of the suspended Stalls of the Abbey for the adequate Endowment of the District Churches in the immediate neighbourhood.