... At the annual converzatiose of the Royal Society on Wednes- day last there was a more than ordinarily interesting display of the recent triumphs of science. The latest improvements on the telephone naturally attracted more attention than any other wonder, but not a little interest was shown in the results of Mr. Galton's curious experiments in combining photographs of different criminals so as ...

... In the notice last week of Fine Art etching, through an error Mr. Seymour Haden's name was printed Hayden, for which we must tender an apology. The World of the 25th condemns in no measured terms the parvenu insolence of the Whitehall Review anent the death of the late Princess Alice, and we feel sure only echoes the feelings of all who lay claim to the title of Gentleman. There is a vast ...

... TIlE Q7E-EN'S ESSEN TGER. On the subject of the dispute between General Stosch, the German Minister of Marine, and Admiral Werner, which has been mentioned by most of our contemporaries, the following reaches us from Berlin:- General Stosch's position has been repeatedly attacked during the last few months both in Parliament and by the Press. In consequence of the latter attacks the Minister ...

... The vacant green Riband of the Thistle has been conferred upon His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, Marquis of Douglas, and Premier Peer of Scotland. Here is another check to the atrocious designs of Russia. Mr. Matthew Arnold's lecture on Equality, at the Royal Institution, was one of his happiest efforts in the way of show- ing us the seamy side of some of our most cherished ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. When Parliament met last week we were under the happy delusion that the Eastern Question was prac- tically settled. It is now suddenly sprung on us again by the vote to be moved on Monday. It is difficult to see wherein matters have so far changed within the last ten days as to justify such a surprise. The Russians were pressing forward then, as they are pressing forward ...

... OlUR SCHOOLS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. SIR: From time to time during the last fifteen years edu- cation has been one of the subjects most agitated in and. out of Parliament, and the unfortunate class upon whose shoulders falls the heavy burden of educating the lower orders, to wit, the upper middle class, complain most bitterly that education for their boys is being made more expensive ...

... The reply delivered in both Houses on Monday evening by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon to Lord Granville, and by Sir Stafford Northcote to Lord Hartington, with regard to the Anglo. Russian agreement, is understood to have been telegraphed from Berlin by Lord Beaconsfield. The reply was word for word the same in both Houses, and some of its peculiarities of expression, such as incomplete ...

... -0- Some of the French Legitimist journals have fallen foul of MI. Anatole de la Forge, director of the Press, for his Republicanism. They point out to him that iiis grandmother fell a victim to La Guilotine in 1793; and that it is unworthy of the descendant of a woman killed by the Revolution to take a place among the ranks of the successors to the principles of '89. To all which ...

... T1HE EXAMINER. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1878. A SAD RETROSPECT. So painful is it to look back upon the year now closing, that we would willingly avoid any allusion to this period of disgrace, disaster, misfortune, and duplicity. Our daily con- temporaries spare us the sad task of being compelled to review a series of political blunders, of Parliamentary per- sonalities, of murderous ...

... VAARIORlTM NOTES. Those who were delighted and bewildered by the fragment of a great novel which left half told the story of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, will, doubtless, feel interest in a work just pub. lished by the Librairie ?? in Paris, and entitled Le Crime de Jasper, par Charles Dickens et Wilkie Collins. Though issued without preface or explanation of any sort, this is simply a ...

... The last traveller through Asia Minor is perhaps Mr. Grat. tan Geary, the able and accomplished editor of the Tinmes of India, almost the only Indian journal of which general readers appear to know anything in this country. Mrr. Geary sailed from Bombay to the head of the Persian Gulf, passed through the Euphrates Valley, and onwards to Constantinople While his testimony as to the miserably ...

... -0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. Lord Derby was very roughly handled by his former colleagues in the great debate on Monday. First of all, the Premier told him, with polite circumlocution, that he was a dangerous lunatic, to whom he should simply say Naviget ad Anticyram. -a very neat classical ren- dering of the modern vulgar form of dismissing a dis- agreeable companion-if he were not concerned ...