16 SEPTEMBER 1882, page 12

House-guarding.

F ROM the days when Horace delighted Roman society with his sharp-cut verses, the "old lady" has been more or less the butt of unkindly criticism ; and she is still, in various......

Pleasure And Pain.

I T is a fact of melancholy significance, for what an old writer calls the " reproof in the whole frame of the world "—and what, apart from any theologic ideas, most of us would......