17 DECEMBER 1870, page 11

The Solar Eclipse Of Thursday Next.

I F the earth could be viewed from the sun during the morning and early afternoon hours of Thursday next, the moon would be seen to pass athwart the upper part of the......

Alexander Dumas.

T HE literary career of Alexander Dumas was specially in- teresting to Englishmen for two reasons. He was, so far as we know; the only true quadroon, the only grandchild of a......