17 DECEMBER 1881, page 12

The Constituents Of "pleasantness."

M R. LOWELL, the American Minister, who generally contrives to beat his English friends in saying the ha . , piest thing at meetings where nothing is so desirable as to say what......

The Catastrophe In Vienna.

T HE catastrophe at the Ring Theatre, Vienna, will prove, we fear, by far the greatest of the kind which has occurred in modern Europe. A much greater one happened in Santiago,......