19 DECEMBER 1885, page 12

The Pessimism Of Old Age.

W E wonder whether the wisdom of our ancestors was all wrong upon another point,—the proclivity of old age towards pessimism. There can, we think, be no doubt that they held......

M. Benin's Confession Of Faith

T N the preface to "The Priest of Mimi," the religions drama which M. Renan has just published, he takes high ground for himself. "In this great crisis," he says, " which the......