... SECONDARY education experts to left of. us, experts on secondary education, to right of us, onward we are forced to thunder into the jaws of the deadly compulsion to write about them. The . whole paper is speckled and ringstraked with them this morning. If the T'eachers' Guild at King's. College .doos not satisfy your appetite, you can turn to the Incorporated Association of Headmasters at ...

... Sir Michael Hicks-Beach put his foot down last night, and Sir William Harcourt made a mistake in getting under it. A decla- ration of that kind this time last year would have saved the Government a good deal of criticism which was partly founded on misapprehension. We still continue to think that, with several crises on hand, the Cabinet acted rather rashly in ordering the move on Dongola. Nor ...

... TRANSVAAL AND EUROPE. DR. LEYDS'S VISIT TO FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN, CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday.-The visit of Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal Secretary of State, to Europe has an object, and it is not surprising that he should prepare the way for his visit to France by publishing beforehand a semii- authorized version of his mission. Notwithstanding realizations effected in a moment of panic a ...

... valf ?? ?? offirt.) 18, CHARING CRoss ROAD, W.C. I t is already known that the Queen, in view of the exceptional circus stances of the Jubilee year, has allowed more than the usual 200 debutantes to ble presented at each Drawing Room. The increase is kept a secret present, but it will probably be' found to be from thirty to fifty at each of the three May Drawing Rooms. On account of the large ...

... THE WARES OF: AJTOLYCUS. DINNERS AND DINERS.-XVI. It was half-past seven, or it may have beep even a little later, when I encountered the recorder of racing rornances wanderinig along the eastenti half-mile of Piccadifly the other eveuiig, aud both he and I bad been too indolent to get into the conventiocnal sables. To him it was a matter of no moment. Maany racing campaigns had 5o ;''tal~ei ...

... BY ONE OF TrIE OLD SCHOOL. IN what longitude and latitude must we ?? the ancient dwelling-place of that primitive tribe so pithily described by the eminent journalist sent out to study their manners and customns, who thus epitomised the result of his study Manners they have none, and their customs are dis- gusting ? The exact longitude may remain a moot point, but if the identical latitude ...

... The Indian Famine Fund has done nobly. Half a million collected in fifteen weeks, whereas it took seven months to raise its equivalent in 1877, must make the Lord Mayor feel a proud man to-day. And this, in spite of the Hospital Fund and other methods of cele- brating the Jubilee Year ! But over the whole of the British Empire loyalty seems to have taken splendidly. The Australasian ...

... ATz E FI GHTING AT MVIALAKSAND. ANOTHER ATTACK THOUGHT IMPROBABLE. It is not believed that there wvill be any renewal of the attack on the Malithild Camlp, as the tribasiien are aware that reinforcements have arr;ved The lighitilg on 'Thursday was the fourth niaht attack the camp had had to repel, and the tribesmen assailed both the right and left lanaks, held resp)ectively, says thle Tihins ...

... T R MME. I SANS GA' THE REAL AIM~E. S-ANS-G-9NE. THE real Mme. Sans-Gene was not the lively-tempered and limber- tongued washerwoman in whom Marechal Lefebvre was to find a congenial Duchess of Dantzic. Except in the Sardovian drama the fond name has never been applied to the future Marechale. The real Mdme. Sans-Gdne was Therese Figuier, the woman-soldier, sometime of the Fourteenth Reegiment ...

... THIE AUTHOR ON HIS WORK, IF there be one statesman in Europe at the present time who has the righlt to claim respectful attention when he speaks of the Concert-or, let us say, the Federation-of EuroPe, that man is Lord SALISBURY. For all practical purposes he is, more than anybody else, the author of that Federation. It was Lord SALISBURY whO, with infinite difficulty, succeeded first in ...

... ITT0% UR TH EDITION. T-FECRISIS IN CRETEOI I)EXISIbON 0OF THE POWERS. ATTITUDE OF THE GREEK~ GOVERNMENT. 'ThIe negotiationis which have been goiing onl among the Great Powers withte oblect of securing a settlement of thle Cretan qnestion, appear to h~ave been crownied withz somnething like suiccess. Commiunicalionis have been, Passinlg be~tween the var1ious Cabinets, and the result is put in ...

... MIXED BLOOD. If the distinct types of race are interesting, the indistinct are sympa- thetic; moreover they have a nationality of their own. A marriage of Orient and Occident creates a child that looks newer than the mere dividing and joining of hereditary characteristics could make him. The sobu of Persian and English, the daughter of English and Greek, have a fresh quality, remarkable for an ...