Mr. Herman Merivale Sends To Thursday's Times Rather...
of the very subjective way in which biographers often describe facts. Mr. Forster, and a more recent student of Dickens,—Mr. A. W. Ward, who wrote the study of Dickens in Mr.......
Mr. F. W. Cory, Writing From Buckhurst Hill, Essex, To
Wednesday's Times, appears to show that by the use of the spectroscope a much surer indication of coming rain or fair weather can be obtained than by any other of the habitual......
The Swansea Chamber Of Commerce Did Honour To Mr. -...
yesterday week, when Mr. Chamberlain made a speech chiefly concerning the forthcoming Bankruptcy Bill, in which he did not spare the Bill introduced by the Associated Chamber of......
A Curious Attempt Was Made In Winchester Yesterday Week To
revive in England the Oriental fancy for playing chess with living pieces. The object was to raise a certain amount of money for paying off a debt on St. Lawrence's Church, Win-......
Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent. Console Were On Friday 102
to 102i.......
A Grave Scandal Has Occurred In Austria. The Construction Of
the Galician Railways has been entrusted to a single con- tractor, Baron Schwarz, instead of many contractors, against the recommendation of a Committee of the Reichsrath. It is......
We Made An Error In Noticing Last Week The Appointment
of Mr. F. Pollock to the Corpus Professorship of Jurisprudence at Oxford, which we erroneously spoke of as the Professorship of English Law. It is the Vinerian Professorship,......
The Coal-miners Of The North, Having Obtained An Increase...
the masters of ten per cent. on their wages, have decided, it is stated, to decrease out-put. Their Unions intend to restrict work to five days a week, and the working-day to......
The Jewish, World, The Organ, We Believe, Of The Reformed
-Jews in England, pronounces this week in most unmistake- able language against all projects for a restoration to Palestine, -or for setting-up a Jewish State there. It......
Last Sunday, Mr. Frederic Harrison Took For The Theme Of
his discourse to his Positivist friends the career of Gambetta, whom he spoke of as the first statesman of European import- ance to recognise Comte as his master alike in......
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