13 JANUARY 1894, page 22

Th1jcydides.*

MANY persons besides Lord Macaulay's model schoolboy are familiar with the often-quoted aphorism, "History is philosophy teaching by examples," but if we may judge from the......

The Humour Of Nursery-rhymes.*

• WHEN the English ship, with the envoys sent in l858 to eonclude the peace with China, was fired upon by • the forts at the mouth of the Pei-ho river, the captain of an......