14 MAY 1892, page 12

The Decay Of Rhetoric.

T HE writer chanced a day or two ago, being both lazy and hard-up for a book which would require no reading, to take up "Salathiel," a novel published by Dr. Croly, once a......

'the Extravagance Of Altruism.

p EOPLE on all sides are beginning to talk,—they are not very likely to begin to act, — as if it were a positive sin to think of self at all, as if life ought to be lived......