15 SEPTEMBER 1888, page 11

A Defence Of Gossip.

E NGLISHMEN, and still more Englishwomen, are by habit so didactic, so much given to utter thoughts graver than their real opinions, that to find the head of a great female......

Mr. Louis Stevenson On Art.

"1 - 1 1 a Roman patrician had been asked his opinion of the .I- arts, and of the artists who work in words, in marble, or in pigments, the spirit of his reply would have been......