18 AUGUST 1883, page 11

Blocking Bills In Parliament.

I T will some day be looked upon as a wonderful legis- lative arrangement that, except in the case of a few leading Government measures, no Act of Parliament can be passed if a......

The Pathetic Element In Literature.

T HAT the Literature of our own day is deficient in Pathos must have been an observation often made by the critic; probably it has appeared before in these columns. We do not......