... _HE EXAMINER. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1878. OIUR GAIN IN CABHL AND THE DANGER OF DELAY. As we appear to be on the verge of another Afghan war, it will be well to examine the situation dispassionately and ask ourselves a few home questions before drawing the sword, as to the cost to ourselves in the case of success and of failure. What is the course at present most likely to ensure the ...

... POLITICAL AN] SOCIAL. NOTES AND COMMENTS. On Thursday evening last, the Duke of Argyll fulfilled his terrible threat of calling attention to the Treaties of 1856, which he did in a speech of vast learning, infinite research, portentous length, and a prosiness only atoned for by a burst of rhetoric at the end, very like the bang of a penny squib. The truth is, his Grace solemnly observed, ...

... s-0 NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. Gladstone's article in the current number of The Ninee- teent17 Century remains to be answered. It is almost a pity that it should have been a magazine article instead of a speech; but, in the dull time of the year, when the British voter is dispersed right and left, from the Engadine to Pen- zance, and from Heligoland to Nice, there is no more telling way of ...

... A French Heiress in her ow .Chateau. By the Author of One Only . (Crown 8vo.) Sampson Low and Co. A Legacy. By the Author of John Halifax, Gentleman. In 2 vole. (Crown 8vo.) Rurst and Blackett. 21s. A Note on MNr. Gladstone's The Peace to Come. By Scotus. (Demn 8y0 pp. 105.) TrUbner and Co. Is. 6d. Church, A. H., M.A.-Food. (Demy 8vo, pp. 224.) Chapmanand Hall. Church, A. H., M.A.-alin ...

... NOTES AND COIQMENTS. Sonic Russian ofliceers in Tu'key baye furoiushed a news- paper correspondent with an explanation oi thle atrocities brought to light by the Rhodope Commlission. On1 the receipt of Suleilmanl Pashla's ?? to evacunate the countrv anid buirn thle villages, a general stamllpede ensued, and hungoer and the winter cold, say- thle offleers, killed thle wretched ?? by thousands. ...

... -0- NOTES A1ND COMMENTS. Nero fiddling while Rome was burning was a comparatively poor spectacle to that which is now presented on the European stage - Prince Gortschakoff and Lord Salisbury straining over the precise terms of a. formula for the Congress, with men and nations standing still to see which will first give in. It is not often that two accomplished littirateurs get such an arena ...

... A Candid Examination of Theism. By Physicus. (Demy 8vo, pp. 197). Trnbner and Co. - Andrewes. Mary Turner.-Animals and their Social Powers. (Small Bce, PP. 126.) Griffith and Farran. Beal, S.-The Dhammapada from the Buddhist Canon. Translated from the Chinese. (Demy 8vo, pp. 176.) Trabner and Co. Beke, Dr. Charles.-Sinai in Arabia. (Royal 8vo, pp. 606.) Trubuer and Co. Bennett, W. C.-Sea Songs ...

... The stage has sustained a great loss in the death, which we deeply regret to announce, of Mr. Alfred Wigan. The state of his health had for some time prevented him from following his professional labours; but old playgoers remember him as one of the most refined and artistic actors on the stage. He entered the stage in 1838, and in the following year he joined Madame Vestris's company at ...

... The eagnteenth Annual of the Russian Diplomatic Service, corresponding, in some degree, to our Blue Book, has just been issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg. In it are published all the Russian treaties and diplomatic engage- ments of the present year, together with a series of maps illus- trating Russia's advances in Asia and acquisitions in Europe during that period. ...

... All About the Electric Light. Waid,.Lock, and Co. Avehlng. Edward B., D. Sc.-The Bookworm and otherSketches. HamiltonAdarms, and Co. Ballautyne, E. M.-Six Months at the Cape (Illustrated). James Nisbet and Co. Birthday Book of German Literature. By J. W. L. Thomas Laurie. Browne, J. Jemmett.-Songs of Many Seasons*(2nd Edition). G. Beal aud Sons. Butt, Gemllin-e.-Esther (Illustratel). Marcus ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Court news ought always to take precedence of every- thing else. Can it really be true that a certain celebrated lion comique, who styles himself the Champion Extempore Artist of the World, has forwarded to her Majesty a comic song of his own composing, containing, amongst others, these lines:- Roumania's dirty slurs, with Servian whelps and curs, Have helped to lame the ...

... - NOTES AND COMMENTS. The cotton operatives' representatives have put forth two appeals ad n isericordiam-one to the millowners, and the! other, for pecuniary relief, to the public. The latter proceeds on the assumption that the conduct of the strikers has been unexceptionable throughout; and both imply a misconcep- tion of the real nature of the struggle. The lock-out, say Messrs. ...