11 FEBRUARY 1899, page 6

Lord Salisbury's Triumph.

T ORD SALISBURY is the last man in the world J either to blow his own trumpet or to encourage other people to blow it for him. It thus happens that the country has as yet failed......

On The Edge Of The Abyss.

I T is useless, as we have always maintained, to prophesy about France—for who can tell what a capricious woman drunk with intellectual absinthe may at any moment resolve to do......