... LOVE-MAKrNTG AND EMPIRE- BUILDING. Mr Edmund Gosse, who is the trim-built wherry among present lecturers and essayists, as Mr W. E Norris is among novelists, has just been telling the American people through one' of the best of their magazines that we have all been turned into barbarians, in the sense that Arnold gloated over, through the worship ofl athleticism. We have become in a dozen I ...

... I BDDORGH WATER1 ,UF' As I TW TALLA CLUB. I I A meeting of the Edinburgh and District Il 'Water Trust was held in the Council Chambers, I Edinburgh, ?? Provost Mitchell Thomson presiding. The principal business was - the consideration of a report by ?? Archi- bald, convener of the 'Works Committee, regard- ing the allegations of drunkenness amongnavvios at the TaIls Workmen's Club. He said he ...

... 'WEATHER -FOECAiSTS FOR T-AT I (South-west. to went or north-west SCOTLAND g I e'ica aitd strong winds: squally ;SConLArN W . ?? , and rainy at firr. some improve- ment later, hlt still showely. Wfind bscling to the sooith-scoot or lSCOTLAND Ii ?? - eat, and ineriosinvg; fair at first, I then ,dii i ud ralny. I Wtirl backing to the sooith-enst or SCOTLAND E. ?? east.alndiicxrorwing; fair ...

... THE SCOTTISHT MINERS. APPLICATION FOR ADVANCE. A meeting of the Scottish Miners' Federation was held yesterday in the Waterloo Rooms. Mr Robert Smillie presided, and representatives wore nresent from alI the districts-via., Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Fifeshire, Clackrannan, WVest Lothian, East Lothian, and Kirkintilloch. The reports having been given in and considered, it was i avreed to claim an ...

... RECENT ARCRLEOLOGICAL i I DISCOVERIES. LO DUMUCK AMw DM td N NEPHRITE. r, (To the Eiitor of the Glasgow Hteral. ra The Limes, Dunblane, January 28, 18. I al Sir.-But for the possibility of many of your i th readers being led to suppose something impor- La tant hangs behind the suggestion of Mr Johnl: Mh i Miller in yesterday's issue that the debated spear- It head mnight be Nephrite, I beg ...

... DIPERIAL PARLIAMEiNT. HOUSE OF C3OMO-NS. WEDNESDAY FebrunsT 8 The Spaker ook.te chair at tweleocok l~e Spaert PARLIMENTAY VAC-ANCEIL On th2e motion 0f S r villiam WaOIrnd thel pea0ker issued Ii;s rrit for the election of a snemnber for Nrh Birnwiglsam an place of Ma' VIIa Kn }eaflck. resigned: and on the motion of Mr Thomnas Ellis i-rits weto issued ?? the c-letie of a cenber for the Rothe ...

... IOUR LOPON _OR.ES.ONDExE i | FLEET STREET, , Sunay Night. LORBS AND COMMONS. |I the House of- Commons this week the time of the Government will br largely devoted to the business of SSupply and i the introduction of bills. Air Ritchie has three mneasures to introduce to-morrow- one to extend and ainend th e Rail- |way Regulation Acts, the second to in- cbrporatc in one Act certain provisions! ...

... L LETTERS TO THE EDITOR i WAS THE SCOTISH XEFORKAON c A 3MSTAKEI ti Sir,- W. P. H. will fad B sts C on the Solemn Leagae end Covena2 55 14 Sa pencilled in his unitalmable hdwig n a 6; book in the sechanics' Library, mI. he e version which W. P. I gives appeared first in b A Sllanl Cnnm inwghm's edition of Burns. ?? t Scott Douglas remarks- No doubt the altera- tions, or improvements, as ...

... p) TKIJA a,\ Lo TX%-IPLcisG. LKJhI O';VALDETAILS c Ur' , 2?-. Ei F::T.dTPr1sD lm- TuHE f-7-T,4 rot X; n tl A L CORZSON TI)S N'wYork, February 27. la: ;,onarzcns inqurnnes a-om I r-.-trte to Mr K'pi~ng's condition, ?? l i lnd it! trtitrr'rre interest in earn. ot - iq ing- iran- czan in the mean- Urn at ?? l.hlroagh the burlletins att-'. r to ?? wfil have a rare It nc --cz r orantanlrOit3 ...

... THE BRITISH MUSEUM LECT URES. Yesterday afternoon. 2r IT. St Chad Poscaw m- gave the fourth of his lectures on the Book of the Dead the special subject being tse Theban version of fthe work. Ho stated that the ostale lishment of the hierarchy of Amen led to a ta- nmarkable revision of this book. When hat began it was difficult to say; but there are no complete papyri containing any series of ...

... V, MO9E ABOUT THr ATE iOA rUP DEPThADERT I.~ cai'- 't'?eiaraot''l3 N-ew Yetl eor-e- j '.li ?? att~ toe oead- keel cf- tha y: to &i-;x the AiZa;ica Cup, at ; ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? thlou.. t'h! s is I1 j t ' ?? p fs-Lel', ha-3 ?? note aczi ?? - 9 ama' > VtViat ,9S tcn. . Large ?? - i-e A Y~~~ ?3 t. ta o. Ji:L 'isro^.,e a-e be:.:g reze.-ce ,-Edf at i treeho, . i. a .4O ti--u:l . V l ?? iz c -;t t - * ...

... HUTCH ESON S' EIYUCATIONAL TRUST. A , eeting of the govern rs of Hute5OB ...