18 FEBRUARY 1882, page 12

Friends And Friends.

n ow is it that Friendship, which ought to be an infallible consolation in the great calamities of life, only aggravates them ? It is Balzac who puts this question, in a letter......

The Birmingham Adventuress.

T HE true interest of the Furnieux story—we copy the spell- ing of the accused herself—lies for us, in the credulity of the lady's dupes. There is nothing so very exceptional......