17 OCTOBER 1896, page 13

Old Age.

F IFTY years must have gone by since we read Miss Martineau's "Life in a Sick-Room;" but it has left -with us one at least of those truths which never perish, one of those......

Culpable Luxury.

W HAT is culpable luxury ? "I kno - w when you do not ask me," said one of the Fathers when he was challenged to define time. One may almost say the same of culpable luxury. It......