... THE QUEEN is stated to intend having her memoirs compiled by a Scotch lady, now living at Kensington. THE AMERICAN SARAH BERNHARDT is the title given by Gallic critics to Mrs. Langtry, who is now studying in Paris. HENRI CONSCIENCE, the Flemish novelist, has just died at the age of seventy. Only three weeks ago his birthplace Antwerp inaugurated a statue of the writer. A LARGE NUMBER OF ...

... i--)M THE IMPROVEMENT in the health of the Primate, which so happily succeeded the discouraging increase of feverishness' reported towards the middle of last week, continues to be well maintained, and the tone of the daily bulletins is decidedly more hopeful. Although all danger cannot be said to have passed away, there is clearly now considerable confidence that the Archbishop's great ...

... - a I B OUFUT IPI I .Z% TILE Queen will return to Windsor about November i9th or 23rd. At present only the Princess Beatrice is with Her Majeity at Balnoral. as Prince Leopold left for the south on Tuesday, and the Queen and the Princess have been taking their accustomed drives, having visited the Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe at Abergeldie Mains, and the Misses Farquharson at Invercauld. On ...

... ONE of the most common and most inveterate of prejudices about the weather is that the years have changed for the worse; that we have now no longer the wvarm and beautiful summers, and the sharp, cold winters, which we knew and rejoiced in in the days of our youth. One often hears from old people very pathetic reminiscences of that golden time ; then England was indeed worth living in. The ...

... Ir vhWC ?? .. l ?? oF ?? THE AUTUMN SESSION.-The House of Commons will soon be at work again, and there are signs that the special task for which it is to reassemble will not be very speedily accomplished. Mr. Gladstone's original intention was that the Autumn Session should be devoted exclusively to the new Rules of Procedure; but it is almost certain that a great deal of attention will be ...

... 8&ROMPj4i Two important steps have been taken towards the definitive settlement of EGYTr-the Dual Control has been abolished, and Lord Granville's Note intimating the line of England's future policy has been presented to the Powers. The fate of the Control was sealed by a despatch from Earl Granville to Lord Dufferin, in which, after recapitulating the arguments set forth in Cherif Pasha's ...

... THE PA THOS OF THE UNSOUGHT THE author of Elsie Venner speaks feelingly somewhere of the pathos of unsought women, but is there not a pathos of inanimate objects more melancholy by far than that of physiognomies? As a matter of fact, moreover, a disappointed look is as frequent among the one sex as the other. A woman whose temper has been soured by not meeting with a lover, or at least ...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 E IR CEA AUTHORITY must have been sorely strained in issuing the shoal of Fishery pamphlets and handbooks which overflow all railway stalls. For Authority speaks in a definite tone, while these speak as the scribes, each writer according to his judgment, which is seldom if ever that of the one who comes after him. The fact is, as the lamented Frank Buckland used ...

... IN THE C HASE THE Chase is a long thin strip of wooded land that extends for miles and miles through the most unfrequented part of two distant English counties ; indeed, so dotted about is it, so closely covered with graceful thin nut-bushes and underwood in some parts, and so naked and barren of aught save furze-bushes in others, that it is only by such names as Ashoaks, and sundry similar ...

... ?? ?? THE ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT.-There is still some doubt as to the precise significance of the Anglo- French Agreement. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville minimised as much as possible the functions of the Inter- national Board; whereas M. Ferry assured the French Chamber that, by the Multiple Control in its new form, France would practically gain all the advantages she possessed in the time ...

... URAL ~OE i ,( FINE WEATHER has favoured the farmer during the past fort- night. Wheat is short and strang in straw, and more regular and uniform in growth than has been the case since 1878. The colour is very good, and there is but little rust, even in the Eastern Counties, whence certain complaints on this score have been heard. The wheat in Norfolk and Suffolk came into ear this year between ...

... 1 c mo t AW _ |1lVs ofE.eA flits WWAV KniARITOUTM AND TilE ENGLISiz Go-'ERRNMENT.-ThrleC can be little doubt, unfortunately, that Colonel Stewart has ?? murdered; and it is too probable that other Europeans have fallen with him. So lamentable a calamity ought to make even Ir.Gladstone'sself-comilplacent Government doubt whether they have acted wisely in postponing to the last possible moment ...