... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... -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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... NOTES AND CO-MI ENTS. '-The Treaty of Berlin is moving towards its fulfilment, but there are difficulties in the way such as must be expected from time to time to occur. It would be alike easy and natural to interpret these words in an ironical sense; but, unfortunately, the influential newspaper from which they are quoted is neither given to irony, nor to humour, nor to much wit of any sort. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...