... TIl-.I' INTE'RNATIONAL HEALTH CON-GRiESS. LAST DAY'S PF'OCEEDINGS. This is the last dav of the International Congress of I-ly,,iene and Demo- graphy, and the attendance at the various meetinas in the vicinity of Burlington Plouse showed some falling off. A;tIiBULANCIES FOR INFECTIOuS DISEASES. Deputy-Surgeon-General Boston and Sir Vincent Kennett-Darrington pre- sented a joint paper to the ...

... I I A LETTER FROM THE QUEEN. The International Congress of Orientalists met again yesterday at the Law Society's buildings, Chancery-lane. Pro,. Aymonier, delegate from the French Government, presided. The first paper read was that of Dr. H. Schlichter, which was entitled Instruction to explorers.' The learned lecturer confined his remarks to the Indian Ocean and eastern Equatorial Africa. ...

... A COM'EDY OF LONGS AND SHOR7St :.FRoM ?? JWes's Garettc of yesterday:- (A Book for Parents.) It is instructive to find a modern man of science laying stress on the pre-eminent value of Latin vcrs!s. . A student who has never written a Latin 'verse is not really a man of lettcs *r The whole chapter on the classics is admirable. Does our contemporary seriously pin its faith to the dictum that ...