... T MEANING OF WORDS. Sir,-I cannot enter into a discussion with Captain Maxse on the topics which he has treated in last week's E xaminer under the above heading. My object in writing to you, there. fore, is simply to correct sundry misstatements into which, doubtless through the impetuosity characteristic of his pro- fession, the gallant Captain has allowed himself to be betrayed. One of ...

... - 0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. The anniversary of the capitulation of Sedan has been celebrated at Berlin with a pompous military display. Bat some care seems to have been taken to prevent the exuberance of national satisfaction from degenerating into an insulting tone towards the vanquished of 1870. There are probably strong political reasons for this moderation, which now, for the first time since ...

... -0- NATIONALISATION OF THE CHURCl. Sir,-In order to make my proposition yet clearer to your- self and your readers, allow me to add that -the term Seculari- sation, suggested by you as a substitute for Nationalisation, by no means expresses my meaning. To secularise the Establishment by excluding the teaching of such contro- verted topics as matters of religion, would be simply to change ...

... ;St i POTJTCA.L OSvOCIAL. 4t aont A\hfXri~a eginreiiaVR - f th e were hav~ dp bt r gt erthe 2 )f ~ B~om e miitary is h n P resey Ttohi fact oi said rtoh te in estthe imepsiblicn or , gveiink , vencwho ea'radi ith au tuonomye iss froi in additionrytortaeisation:s0 of:e a ont~ 0:w s atord those wh ?? %:Dio.' Tioe oe~catsion. mreently wogtoo in tectonstituirrofes : Escitise Tllhey re wthe ...

... FANRMERS AND LABOU11ERS. Sir,-Land has increased enormously in value throughout Great Britain since the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Has there, however, 'been an adequate increase in the wages and good condition of the labourers who make that land valuable? Shakspere, describing the agricultural labourer of his time, said, Gets him to rest, cramrezed with distressfu1 bread. Distressful, i.e., ...

... PARIS, FPE. 3. On the morrow of the memorable day when the Versailles Assembly prolonged for seven years the power of Marshal MacMahon, I came across a member of the Right, whose Countenance beamed as he addressed me. Victory, he cried. It is ours ! What U It! The adored, the sacred, the immqrtal, the rre- sistible Monarchy! Ahi, bah 1 We have just proclaimed it, spite of the ...

... GO S SIP. Some important additions will shortly be made to the collection of pictures at the Dor4 Gallery. Amongst them will be a Crusade-piece, the Soldiers of the Cross, The Massacre of the Innocents, La Vigue, and the M Midsum- mer Night's Dream. The engraving of The Dream of Pilate's Wife is to be entrusted to M. Francois, Membre de ?? Frauiais, the ?? line engraver. Messrs ...

... -0- CO iM ME NT S. Parliament has not sat during the week, and several honourable members have taken the opportunity of addressing their constituents. MIr Roebuck in par- ticular, at Sheffield, has been filling with sight the interval of sound. Our old friend Tear 'em'n. was as brisk as ever; and it must have been inconceivably grand to hear the Calumniated Mentor defend himself against Mr ...

... THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. It must be confessed that her Majesty, in recurring to the advice of her faithful Lords and Commons, appears to do so with a somewhat light heart. A super- ficial observer might imagine that there was a good deal in the present condition of this country which needed the earnest attention of legislators, and which would not unnaturally cause her Majesty to experience a ...

... ?? NOTES AND COMMENTS. Wild ideas seem to have been raised in Paris by the visit wlhich the Prince of Wales is paying to the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia, at the Chateau of Eglemont. The Duke is one of the most devoted adherents of the Comte de Chambord. So zealous is he for the rights of his Royal master that, when he was the Ambassador of France at our own Court, he calmly proposed that ...

... THE ROYAL INSTIT UTION. The second lecture of the season was given at the Royal Institution by Professor Sylvester on Friday evening, the 23rd inst. The subject (to which we have previously referred) was a mechanical invention of M. Peaucellier, Lieutenant- Colonel in the French Corps de G6nie, at Tours. This invention, now about seven years old, fell very flat on its first publication in ...

... CORRESPONDEN CE. TEl QUARTERLY REVIEW ON PRIMITIVE MAN. Sir,-Just as desperate charges of cavalry are the signs of the defeat of an army, and the heralds of its approaching rout, so one is tempted to presage from the appearance of a heroic article on Primitive Man, in the last Quarterly Review, the speedy surrender of the supporters of the separate creation of man into the hands of those ...