22 OCTOBER 1870, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE DECADENCE OF FRANCE. T HERE is an idea rapidly gaining ground among our own people, in Germany, and in America which ought to be discussed. Is it not possible, ask grave......

The Crusading Spirit In Germany.

T HE German nation is respectable, even when it is intoxi- cated and oppressive. No one can read the wild shriek of the national party in Germany for the reclamation of German......