19 DECEMBER 1896, page 11

The Future Of The Philippines.

E sudden contraction of the world due to telegraph cables and the increased speed of steamers, which within our own time has reduced the planet to one-third its size, tends to a......

Cant.

M R. WALLACE, M.P., was certainly quite right on Monday in deriving the word "cant" from a corrupted form of "chant." It is rather a curious truth that John- son's advice to......