4 JANUARY 1890, page 9

It Is Hardly Credible To Those Who Have Watched The

deluge of volumes which have poured this year from the press, that many fewer have actually been published than were published last year,—the total being 4,694 new books in......

The Sings Are Again Repeating That They Expect Peace. The

Russian Emperor will, it is said, at his New Year's reception (Old Style), speak reassuring words to the world, and the German Emperor has already spoken them in the form of a......

Se The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, In Any

case.......

News Of The Week.

E UROPE was disturbed on Thursday by rumours of the Czar's fatal illness, and of consequent trouble in St. Petersburg, so grave that the Guard, which numbers 60,000 men, had......

The Portuguese Government Is Evidently Growing...

in his first speech to Parliament, delivered on Thursday, expresses, of course, his determination to guard his " rights " in Africa ; but he does not define his rights, and he......