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Max Havelaar
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The chemical components of Ceylon cinnamon.

Discipline on merchantmen.

The opium concession in Java.

Regulations as to the sale of poisons.

The cutting of the Suez Canal, and its consequences.

Payment of land-rent in kind.

Coffee-planting in Menado. (This I have already referred to.)

The partition of the Roman Empire.

The Gemüthlichkeit of the Germans.

The Scandinavian Edda.

The duty of France, to establish for herself a counterpoise to England in the Indian Archipelago. (This was written in French, I don’t know why.)

Vinegar manufacture.

The homage paid to Schiller and Goethe in the German middle-class.

Man’s claims to happiness.

The right of rebellion against oppression. (This was in the Javanese language. I only got to know the title afterwards.)

Ministerial responsibility.

Some points in criminal law.

The right of a people to demand that the taxes they pay shall be applied for their use. (This again was in Javanese.)

The double A and the Greek Eta.

The existence of an impersonal God in the hearts of men. (An infamous lie!)

Style.

A constitution for the Empire of Insulind. (I have never heard of that Empire.)

The absence of ephelcoustics in our rules of grammar.

Pedantry. (I believe this article is written with a good deal of intimate knowledge.)

Europe’s debt to the Portuguese.