4 OCTOBER 1890, page 11

Progress And Stagnation.

T ORD DERBY, in his speech at the Liverpool School of Science, was not, in our opinion, as happy as usual in his diagnosis of the conditions under which mankind are moving......

Talking Birds.

T HERE is a marked distinction between the call-notes of birds, which are hereditary and invariable, and the song, which is an accomplishment, the result of effort and practice,......