29 JUNE 1878, page 9

George Eliot's "breakfast Party."

MHE July number of Macmillan's Magazine contains a striking picture of the profound intellectual chaos of the time, in George Eliot's blank-verse debate,—which rises at times......

The Gathering Of The Bishops.

W E have no wish to depreciate the advantages of counsel and deliberation. No one who believes in represen- tative institutions could honestly do so. But we think we see signs......

The Irish Intermediate Education Bill.

L ORD CAIRNS had no difficulty in demonstrating the need of Parliamentary intervention as regards intermediate education in Ireland. Whether the present state of things is......