12 FEBRUARY 1881, page 5

TOPICS OF THE DAY THE AFGHAN SECRET PAPERS. T HE Secret Papers of which Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Lytton made so much have at last been published, and very curious and......

Mr. Carlyle As A Political Power.

O VER practical politics, it is needless to say that Mr. Carlyle wielded no power,—indeed, would have despised himself, if he had wielded power. The deep scorn which he poured......