12 FEBRUARY 1859, page 29

Capps's Prize Essay On The National Debt.*

IN the early part of 1857, the Society of Arts announced that "two hundred guineas had been placed in their hands," [by Mr. Henry Johnson,] for the purpose of bestowing that sum......

Badham's Life Of John Deacon Hume. The Distribution Of Fame

is a puzzle. "Reason frowns on war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name." Discoverer after discoverer fails or perishes, that the last and lucky adventurer......