20 AUGUST 1892, page 15

Correspondence.

NOTES FROM A DIARY IN EGYPT AND PALESTINE. THE transition from the civilisation of Egypt to that of Palestine presents no violent contrasts, such as one meets with in passing......

Hackneyed Quotations.

I T seems as if an obligation were laid upon some people to utter a quotation, however trite, however really inappro- priate, if some triffing incident or expression suggests it......