18 FEBRUARY 1899, page 11

Suspicion.

T HE public life of France at the present moment is poisoned by a vague but general suspicion. As it was in 1794, when, as Carlyle said, they conjugated the verb "to suspect"—"......

Wholesale Conversion.

p EOPLE in Earope_ have ceased to think of the possi- bility of wholesale conversion, by which we mean a change of religions faith among the majority of an entire nation. No one......