12 FEBRUARY 1881, page 10

The Boer War.

S IR CORNEWALL LEWIS may have been right in saying that in politics cure was usually better than prevention, or in other words, that constant preparation costs more, both in......

Thomas Carlyle.

F OR many years before his death last Saturday, Mr. Carlyle had been to England what his great hero, Goethe, long was to Germany,—the aged seer whose personal judgments on men......