... MODERN A THENS THE old Athens has gone as the old Greeks have gone, and a newer and degenerate city has risen in its place. Among the ruined memorials of its ancient grandeur which time, and war, and the spoiler have left, are streets of modem houses and shops ; where philosophers, poets, and orators trode, in- triguing politicians and greedy place-men now meet, and the scenes which have been ...

... IOWA A CHILDREN'S FLOWER SHOW THE love of flowers is a beautiful and humanising sentiment, and all must rejoice that the taste for floriculture is so rapidly spreading; and is meeting with so much encouragement. In the rural districts there is little need of organisation or artificial inducement; but in the narrow streets and bye-ways of London where there are no gardens, and where there is ...

... THERE have been many dismissals from volunteer corps on account of the uniform question, and several meetings upon the point. At a meeting held in St. Martin's Lane several members gave their friends an account of their discharge, and one even went so far as to say that a volunteer might vear his uniform when he liked and write what he liked; rather a wide proposition. The 29th North Middlesex ...

... ANARTIST'S WAR DIARY SAVERNE, Seaft. 17 WE started at vofture for Saverne, where we were told the course was clear of Prussians, but, as usual, we were mis- informed. Saverne was crammed with them. Having pulled up to bait our horses at an inn, the driver refused to go on again, so we had to look for other horses. Our host, however, did not care to help us, and we were obliged to stay in his ...

... THIS distinguished officer belonged to a class whose merits are far less gratefully recognised by the public at large than they deserve to be. The names of even the third-rate statesmen, who remain at home and take part in the debates of Parliament, are in everybody's mouth, although their public services are frequently confined to the administration of some routine department, where all the ...

... I 0 I ?? I, ?? ?? ?? THE coming visit of the Empress of Russia is now the chief topic of Court circles. The Czarina will leave Livadia in the Crimea, where, as usual, she has been spending the autumn, on the 12th inst., and will travel, via Odessa and Breslau, to Berlin, arriving on the 18th inst. After a short stay in the Prussian capital Her Majesty will go to Calais, and thence cross the ...

... Tim enterprising publisher who issued some years ago a new tdition of the once popular sketches of Seymour did not, we believe, find much encouragement for his venture; but the volume served to remind the curious that there are fashions in humour as in other things. What, indeed, but the caprice of fashion could account for the extraordinary interest which the humourists of forty years ago ...

... ?7 R; OUJA THE CONCLUDING STATE FESTIVITIES To THE SHAH OF PERSIA IN ENGLAND Like his entry into London, the Shah's introduction to Liver. pool was marked by bad weather. Leaving Euston Square at Io o'clock on the morning of Thursday week, he rattled down to Liverpool in four hours and a half. Of the details of his journey, and his reception at Liverpool Station, our readers have probably had ...

... szz 0 Th~ uR TIHE QuEEN and the Princess Beatrice visited the Prince of Wales' Indian presents at South Kensington last week. The Prince of Wales accompanied 1Her Majesty through the collec- tion, and pointed out the objects of special interest. The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday evening, Prince Christian and Princess Amelia, Mr. Cross, the Dean of Windsor, and Mrs. Wellesley, being ...

... VARpIOUS VE;RSIFIERS IF it would not be possible for the critic to say that The Regent: A Play in Five Acts and an Epilogue, by J. M. Chanson (Samuel Tinsley), fulfils every requirement of the tragic drama, it must at least be admitted to possess much excellence. It is well constructed, the acts are not too long, and the dialogue is judiciously terse ; added to which the events of which it ...

... ?? FRANCE--Shylock did not turn a more deaf ear to the pleadings addressed to him for mercy than the French Senate lent on Monday to the earnest, even passionate, cry for mercy on behalf of the condemned Communists uttered by M. Victor lingo. Argument and rhetoric were alike futile. I)eeply impressed the large and distinguishced audience undoubtedly wvere, despite the indignation of at least ...

... UtW 1 'nu S I THE REVIVAL MOVEMENT.--Messrs. Moody and Sankey's meetings continue to be very largely attended, and both preacher and singer appear indefatigable. On Sunday Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Kinnaird, M.P., were on the platform at the Agricul- tural Hall. Mr. Moody was the preacher, but Mr. Sankey was at the Hall in the Bow Road. Mr. Stones, the chairman of the committee, states in a letter ...