1 FEBRUARY 1868, page 20

Mr. Gilbert S New Tales.* Mr. Gilbert Delights In The

artifice of taking common life and pro- saic human nature just as it is, and then introducing some one single variation, either by the assumption of a special monomania on the......

The Old English Language.* Some Forty Years Ago A Few

zealous students of the old language of England endeavoured to arouse an interest in the Anglo-Saxon tongue. It was impossible, they avowed, fully to understand Eng- lish itself......

Mr. Maurice On The Theological Basis Of Hope.*

MR. LowE said the other day in his speech at Liverpool on educa- tion that one of the most important and earliest lessons of educa- tion should be to teach children not to......