22 JULY 1893, page 14

The Electric Eel.

I F the rational basis of legend and fable is worth exploring at all, we may well ask why the possession of electric power, the most strange, and until recently the most inex-......

The Pleasure Of Tormenting.

A WEEKLY contemporary a few days ago, commenting upon an old work entitled the "Art of Tormenting," -offered some reflections of its own as to the modern practice of an art......