14 JANUARY 1899, page 11

Soldiers Op The Queen.

I T is a small, insignificant corner numbering some fifty houses, thatched cottages most of them, that, bent with age, battered by the sweeping south-west gales, straggle in......

The Place Of Man In The Universe.

I N his lecture of Saturday at the Royal Institution, Sir Robert Ball, lately Astronomer-Royal in Ireland, and a man with a singular capacity for "popularising" science without......