20 AUGUST 1881, page 18

"a Lost Cause."

THERE is probably not one person in a thousand who does not occasionally long for a novel to read. The idler who is con- demned to solitude at afternoon tea finds company in the......

Peruvian Bark* " Replenish The Earth, And Subdue It :

every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat." From far off down the ages comes the echo of the voice which spoke through the Hebrew......