20 SEPTEMBER 1890, page 23

Mr. J. A. Symonds's Essays.*

Mn. SYMONDS has passed, he tells us in his preface, twelve years in the isolation of an Alpine retreat. He thinks, there- fore, that he may have acquired a mystical habit of......

The Railways Of America.* The Railway Systems Of The United

States, which make up a total of over 150,000 miles, are, indeed, a cause for wonder, and this vast figure will not be likely to modify the popular belief that American railways......