... Mr. O'Conor, the Irish Peasant Poet, who has shown in his Songs of Life the most unmistakeable gift of song, fresh and spon- taneous as the notes of a bird and almost as untaught, makes an appeal to the charitable. M~r. O'Conor, who finds that he cannot live by poetry alone, and whose health prevents him from earning wages by manual labour, thinks that he has at last discovered a means of ...

... THE X A M I N E P, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1878. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH AND THE DEBATE. If it were possible to argue the length of a Session from the length of the Queen's Speech that introduces it, Her Majesty's faithful Lords and Commons ought to be compensated for their unseasonable assemblage this winter by a very early dismissal next summer. Students of the comparative pheno. mlena of ...

... Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.-Baby Bell (Illustrated). George Routledge and Sons. Angus, J. Keith-Children's Theatricals. George Routledge and Sons. Archer, Thomas.-Decisive Events in History (Illustrated). Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. A Picture Book for Laddies and Lassies (Illustrated). George Routledge and Sons. British Almanac for 1879-Stationers' Company. Brodribb, Rev. W. T., N.A., and Besant, ...

... THE LEPROSY OF JOURNALl SM. III.-BLACK SHEEP. Almost within the memory of man a great Power has arisen in Western Europe, of which the development was as undreamt of a hundred years ago as the electric telegraph or the telephone. The Fourth Estate has, in a comparatively short period, acquired an influence so enormous that few even of the most absolute monarchs can brave its united strength ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. I have seven crores (seventy millions) of rupees by me, every rupee of which I will hurl at the head of the British Government, and I will roll the border tribes against them like blasts of fire. These are the words which Shere Ali is reported to have uttered in public Durbar; and, if they are really his, they show that His Highness is a master of forcibl . picturesque ...

... The Salle de ?? Ancien, at the forthcoming Paris Exhibi- tion, will be on a scale never before attempted, if report is to be trusted. The productions of Egyptian art and that of the extremest East, from the remotest times down to the present day, as well as those of Greece and Rome, will be fully represented. It is said that the Philological Society will con- tribute a primitive Aryan, and the ...

... YARIORUM NOTES. The College crews of Oxford and Cambridge must feel rather humiliated thatthe Visitors' Cup, for four oars, at HenleyRegatta, should have been taken away by Columbia College, U.S. This cup is confined to school and college fours, and other clubs are not allowed to compete for it. This Columbia College is practically a University, numbering hundreds while our colleges muster ...

... -o - It may, or perhaps may not, be remembered that in the November of 1864, now nearly fourteen years ago, a meeting was held at Oxford of the Oxford Diocesan Society for Augmenting the Endowment of Small Benefices, at which Lord Beaconsfield, then 'ir. Disraeli, delivered an address which at the time was considered to embody the future Church policy of the Conservative party. The topic of ...

... Count Kuno de Rantzau, who was married a few days age to Prince Bismarck's daughter, is at present at Venice on his honeymoon, in spite of which several French papers have announced his arrival in Paris. The news of his appointment as Secretary to the German Embassy in that city is also false. On the expiration of his leave Count de RRantzau will resume the functions he occupied in the ...

... POLITICAL AND SOCIAL, -Uv-- NOTES AND COMMENTS. Once again a Wednesday afternoon has been occupied in discussion of the Women's Disabilities Removal Bill. There was, as The Times remarked next day, nothing new either in the debate or the division that followed it. Mr. Courtney, MIr. Palmer, Mr. Gorst, Sir Henry Jackson, Mr. Blennerhasset, and Mr. flibbert used the old stock arguments, while ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. In spite of the uzfavourable Iweather, energetic, advance is reportedL .from the western side of the theatre of war, on the Nisch-Sophia line. Pirot hias been taken, and important ground bas been gained by the forces.' threatening Sophia. It sis impossible, however, to follow t. e movements of the various detachments at wvork on -his line. the reports are so contradictory. ...

... Those who have in their youth perused the works of the late Pierce Egan can hardly gaze at the Government bench in the Ifouse of Lords without having recalled to them some familiar characters in those masterly fictions. Who, for in- Stance, can fail to see, in the present First Lord of the Treasury, and his two usual supporters in the heraldic, sense, the three heroes of ' Life in London? Gay, ...