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On Monday, At The Annual Distribution Of Prizes At Mason

College, Birmingham, Professor Jebb delivered an address, in which he declared, and we think rightly, that " the spirit which the classics embodied now animated the higher......

At Any Moment We May Learn That Some One Or

other of the lost books of antiquity has been discovered in a bundle of Egyptian papyri. On Tuesday, the Times announced that a col- lection of papyri has just been bought by......

During The Past Week The Papers Have Spent Thousands Of

pounds and given up columns of space to the "America Cup,"—the yacht-race in which Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie ' has been trying to beat the American Vigilant,' to which the......

Nothing Is Talked Of In France But The Reception Of

the Russian Fleet at Toulon, which began yesterday. The details of the ceremony prepared read exactly like the accounts of the arrangements for a grand opera, with all the......

The Newcastle Daily Chronicle Published, A Week Or Two Ago,

a remarkable letter from the Dean of Durham on the growth of the Newcastle College of Science, of which Dr. Lake is the Warden. That letter showed how rapid has been the growth......

Bank Rai E, 3 Per Cent. New Consols (21) Wire

on Friday 98k.......

Sir William Smith, The Editor Of The Quarterly, And The

compiler of innumerable dictionaries and class-books, died last Saturday at the age of eighty-one, from failure of the heart's action. Though not a great scholar in the sense of......

The General Idea Is That Birmingham Is, Of All English

towns, the most thoroughly civilised, that its finances are in excellent order, that the security of life and property is com- plete, and that its police, though governed by a......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Daily Telegraph Records A...

which, if it is correctly reported, goes a long way towards clearing up one of the problems of modern history. A letter to Louvois by Louis XIV., written in cipher, has been......